FrankTheTank

I justed wanted to give GCic a try with the 3.0 RC compiler. However, I get strange messages after running ./GCic FIZZBUZZ.cbl: rm: cannot remove 'FIZZBUZZ.c': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove 'FIZZBUZZ.c.h': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove 'FIZZBUZZ.c.l.h': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove 'FIZZBUZZ.i': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove 'FIZZBUZZ.o': No such file or directory The file FIZZBUZZ.gclst contains this information: *command line: cobc -v -std=default...

I have a file that was transfered from our Mainframe to my laptop and I want to read this file with GnuCOBOL. This works fine for all fields in the file, except for the COMP-3 fields. I just use the copybook from the Mainframe where these fields have the COMP-3 definition. Any ideas how I can work with the packed-decimal fields? Thanks!

Ah thank you! Both for your answer and your PR! :-)

Hm, no curses found: Built Jun 06 2018 18:42:02 Packaged Apr 22 2018 22:26:54 UTC build information build environment : x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CC : gcc -std=gnu99 C version : "4.8.4" CPPFLAGS : CFLAGS : -O2 -pipe -finline-functions -fsigned-char -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-format-y2k -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE LD : /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64 LDFLAGS : -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now,-O1 GnuCOBOL information COB_MODULE_EXT : so dynamic loading : system 64bit-mode : yes BINARY-C-LONG : 8 bytes extended...

This is the output of cobcrun --runtime : GnuCOBOL 3.0-rc1.0 runtime configuration via /usr/local/share/gnucobol/config/runtime.cfg CALL configuration : COB_LOAD_CASE : not set : COB_PHYSICAL_CANCEL : false (default) : COB_PRE_LOAD : not set : COB_LIBRARY_PATH : not set File I/O configuration : COB_FILE_PATH : not set : COB_VARSEQ_FORMAT : 0 (default) : COB_LS_FIXED : false (default) : COB_LS_NULLS : false (default) : COB_SORT_CHUNK : 256 KB (default) : COB_SORT_MEMORY : 128 MB (default) : COB_SYNC...

Brian, "Secure Programming" is best achieved with more bugs, not less. :-) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.00659.pdf

I am interacting with a GnuCOBOL command-line tool via SSH. Is there a way to clear the terminal screen? Something more serious than PERFORM 100 TIMES DISPLAY "" END-PERFORM

"apt-get install gnucobol" worked on my machine. :-)