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  • GnuCOBOL 2.2 released

    From bwtiffin@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Wed Sep 6 17:26:36 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    ** For immediate release **

    September 6th, 2017. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.

    GnuCOBOL 2.2 officially released, after 7 years of continual improvement and refinements since OpenCOBOL 1.1, and three years after the initial unveiling of
    GnuCOBOL 1.1.

    GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free software COBOL compiler and GNU project.

    Substantial coverage of COBOL 85, 2002, 2014 standard and X/Open COBOL, supporting many extensions from IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others.

    Extremely well, freely, documented COBOL with the GnuCOBOL Programmer's Guide and FAQ.

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnucobol or https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/ or http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/

    More information at https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/

    Contact Simon Sobisch at simonsobisch at gnu.org

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  • From Arnold Trembley@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Mon Sep 11 02:39:17 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On 9/6/2017 7:26 PM, bwtiffin@gmail.com wrote:
    ** For immediate release **

    September 6th, 2017. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.

    GnuCOBOL 2.2 officially released, after 7 years of continual improvement and
    refinements since OpenCOBOL 1.1, and three years after the initial unveiling of
    GnuCOBOL 1.1.

    GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free software COBOL compiler and GNU
    project.

    Substantial coverage of COBOL 85, 2002, 2014 standard and X/Open COBOL,
    supporting many extensions from IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others.

    Extremely well, freely, documented COBOL with the GnuCOBOL Programmer's Guide
    and FAQ.

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnucobol or https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/ or
    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/

    More information at https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/

    Contact Simon Sobisch at simonsobisch at gnu.org



    I have finished all the MinGW builds for Windows (Berkeley Database,
    VBISAM 2.01, and NODB), and published the revised MinGW GnuCOBOL 2.2
    build guide in .PDF and .ODT format. Here are the links.

    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GC22-BDB-rename-7z-to-exe.7z

    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GC22-NODB-rename-7z-to-exe.7z

    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GC22-VBI-rename-7z-to-exe.7z

    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL-2.2-MinGW-Build-Guide-draft.pdf

    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL-2.2-MinGW-Build-Guide-draft.odt

    The main page also has links for older pre-built versions of OpenCOBOL
    and GnuCOBOL, OpenCobolIde 4.7.6 (with GnuCOBOL 2.0 RC2 06Nov2016), and
    VBISAM 2.01.

    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm


    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and Sample Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/



    --
    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm

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  • From Richard@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Mon Sep 11 13:35:32 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 7:39:24 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley wrote:

    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and Sample Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/

    Except the files are not PDFs. A 'head' shows that they are html.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!-- Server: sfs-forge-2 -->

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  • From Arnold Trembley@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Mon Sep 11 23:06:53 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On 9/11/2017 3:35 PM, Richard wrote:
    On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 7:39:24 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley wrote:

    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and Sample
    Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/

    Except the files are not PDFs. A 'head' shows that they are html.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!-- Server: sfs-forge-2 -->



    That's funny. When I visit that link, I see the following links which
    take me to download pages:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobpg-a4.pdf

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobpg-letter.pdf

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobqr-a4.pdf

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobqr-letter.pdf

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobsp-a4.pdf

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobsp-letter.pdf


    I've downloaded all three manuals in USA 8.5x11 inch "Letter" format.
    The Programmer's Guide and Quick Reference guide were updated within the
    last 8 hours.

    Kind regards,


    --
    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/

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  • From Richard@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Tue Sep 12 15:42:15 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 4:06:59 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley wrote:
    On 9/11/2017 3:35 PM, Richard wrote:
    On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 7:39:24 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley wrote:

    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and Sample
    Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/

    Except the files are not PDFs. A 'head' shows that they are html.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!-- Server: sfs-forge-2 -->



    That's funny. When I visit that link, I see the following links which
    take me to download pages:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/guide/PDFs/gnucobpg-a4.pdf
    The links indicate that they are .pdf. Normally, clicking a pdf link will display the pdf in the browser. To download directly one would use 'save as' on
    the link, this results in an html file being downloaded (which is why I put up the message and then deleted it). On my browser (Firefox) clicking the link goes to a GNUCobol page that says:
    """gnucobpg-a4.pdf is not known to be viewable in your browser. Try to display it anyway or download it instead."""
    Yes the 'download' link there does download the pdf.
    Clicking 'display it', which has '?force=true' gives:
    13585 lines (13549 with data), 1.8 MB
    %PDF-1.5
    %|E|o|a|y
    1 0 obj
    <<
    /Length 587
    /Filter /FlateDecode

    stream
    x|UmTM-A-o@.-+||+z.&|A|U-#?.tBL.$|#-#|ud4-c-+*-|.-e.|+|>-+_-o|?|if.

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  • From Vince Coen@1:2320/100 to Richard on Wed Sep 13 00:10:57 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    Hello Richard!

    Monday September 11 2017 21:35, Richard wrote to All:

    On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 7:39:24 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley
    wrote:

    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and
    Sample Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/gui
    de/PDFs/

    Except the files are not PDFs. A 'head' shows that they are html.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!-- Server: sfs-forge-2 -->





    Vince

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  • From Vince Coen@1:2320/100 to Richard on Wed Sep 13 00:21:07 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    <Opydnf4Yr_w4oCvEnZ2dnUU7-UPNnZ2d@giganews.com> <bcdee941-934f-460f-894b-64763e0f5ab5@googlegroups.com>
    Hello Richard!

    Monday September 11 2017 21:35, Richard wrote to All:

    On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 7:39:24 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley
    wrote:

    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and
    Sample Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/gui
    de/PDFs/

    Except the files are not PDFs. A 'head' shows that they are html.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!-- Server: sfs-forge-2 -->

    Nope, all six of them are .pdf files, may be your browser or a addin is screwing around.

    All created using texi2pdf within the last day or less.

    Have done a fair few changes to the primary two as luckily none required
    for the sample programs.



    Vince

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  • From Richard@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Tue Sep 12 18:12:32 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 11:31:55 AM UTC+12, Vince Coen wrote:
    <Opydnf4Yr_w4oCvEnZ2dnUU7-UPNnZ2d@giganews.com> <bcdee941-934f-460f-894b-64763e0f5ab5@googlegroups.com>
    Hello Richard!

    Monday September 11 2017 21:35, Richard wrote to All:

    On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 7:39:24 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley
    wrote:

    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and
    Sample Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/gui
    de/PDFs/

    Except the files are not PDFs. A 'head' shows that they are html.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!-- Server: sfs-forge-2 -->

    Nope, all six of them are .pdf files, may be your browser or a addin is screwing around.

    All created using texi2pdf within the last day or less.

    Exactly the same happens with Chromium with no add ins.

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  • From bwtiffin@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Thu Sep 14 19:29:11 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 9:12:35 PM UTC-4, Richard wrote:
    On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 11:31:55 AM UTC+12, Vince Coen wrote:
    Hello Richard!

    Monday September 11 2017 21:35, Richard wrote to All:

    On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 7:39:24 PM UTC+12, Arnold Trembley wrote:

    And here is a link to the most current GnuCOBOL 2.2 manuals in PDF
    format, including the Programmer's Guide, Quick Reference, and
    Sample Programs, all in either A4 or Letter format:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/external-doc/gui
    de/PDFs/

    Except the files are not PDFs. A 'head' shows that they are html.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!-- Server: sfs-forge-2 -->

    Nope, all six of them are .pdf files, may be your browser or a addin is screwing around.

    All created using texi2pdf within the last day or less.

    Exactly the same happens with Chromium with no add ins.

    Yep; That's SourceForge, Richard.

    What you'll see in a browser is the forge template page with something like

    gnucobpg-a4.pdf is not known to be viewable in your browser. Try to display it anyway or download it instead.


    in the body window. (Or for Firefox (etc), if enabled, a Javascript view of the
    PDF info).

    The forge uses redirects for some (most? all?) download and indirect download links to provide an opportunity to upsell the free hosting services and for load balancing.

    (After Dice Inc, the previous owners, got in trouble, the new owners (BIZX) are
    keen to restore reputation. The interstitial pages usually just show the name of the one of the many mirroring site that support the redistributions).

    When saved the data will be straight up .pdf.

    Have good, make well,
    Brian

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