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: I have not used Dos emulation under Linux yet. Can dos based compilers be
: used (example: MicroFocus cobol) via the emulation?
People have reportedly gotten borland C compiler, possibly others to work
under DOSEMU. DPMI support is available, which most compilers need. As
long as you have enough memory and patience, you can probably get it to
work. No guarantees on any IDEs, though... It is also possible to build
cross-platform versions of gcc and related compilers. That way, you could
compile using native code, which would be much faster. If you check out the
gcc source distribution, it has more info. I don't know of any gnu cobol
compiler, though...
Evan Jeffrey