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From: Russ Finley on 23 Apr 2010 11:05
I just upgraded my PC hardware to 64 bit OS and now of course, I am
having problems running some of my programs. One particular thorny
issue is with my old cobol compiler. It wont run under the new
Windows 7.0 64 bit OS. SO not I am in very much a need for a new
Cobol Compiler for Windows that runs in both 64 bit and 32 OS.

Thank you in advance for any help. I am currently looking to upgrade/
move to Microfocus but I find that this is an expensive option. One
which I had not budgeted for.
From: Kerry Liles on 23 Apr 2010 11:12
"Russ Finley" <netsoftduffy(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I just upgraded my PC hardware to 64 bit OS and now of course, I am
> having problems running some of my programs. One particular thorny
> issue is with my old cobol compiler. It wont run under the new
> Windows 7.0 64 bit OS. SO not I am in very much a need for a new
> Cobol Compiler for Windows that runs in both 64 bit and 32 OS.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help. I am currently looking to upgrade/
> move to Microfocus but I find that this is an expensive option. One
> which I had not budgeted for.


You may want to consider running a virtual machine wherein you can run any
such problematic stuff. That has the additional benefit of (usually)
insulating the real machine from any horrendous crashes induced by the old
rubbish.


From: Russ Finley on 23 Apr 2010 11:39
On Apr 23, 11:12 am, "Kerry Liles"
<kerry.removethisandoneperiod.li...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> "Russ Finley" <netsoftdu...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:14e18848-5e8f-45f7-b379-7ab4409f1091(a)x3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I just upgraded my PC hardware to 64 bit OS and now of course, I am
> > having problems running some of my programs.  One particular thorny
> > issue is with my old cobol compiler.  It wont run under the new
> > Windows 7.0 64 bit OS.  SO not I am in very much a need for a new
> > Cobol Compiler for Windows that runs in both 64 bit and 32 OS.
>
> > Thank you in advance for any help.  I am currently looking to upgrade/
> > move to Microfocus but I find that this is an expensive option.  One
> > which I had not budgeted for.
>
> You may want to consider running a virtual machine wherein you can run any
> such problematic stuff. That has the additional benefit of (usually)
> insulating the real machine from any horrendous crashes induced by the old
> rubbish.

Hi Kerry, That sounds like a great idea. I have never attempted to do
this, but if I upgrade my Windows 7 to Professional or Ultimate, it
sounds very fesible. This way I can run in the best of two worlds.
Thank you.
From: Kerry Liles on 23 Apr 2010 13:15
"Russ Finley" <netsoftduffy(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 23, 11:12 am, "Kerry Liles"
<kerry.removethisandoneperiod.li...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> "Russ Finley" <netsoftdu...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:14e18848-5e8f-45f7-b379-7ab4409f1091(a)x3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I just upgraded my PC hardware to 64 bit OS and now of course, I am
> > having problems running some of my programs. One particular thorny
> > issue is with my old cobol compiler. It wont run under the new
> > Windows 7.0 64 bit OS. SO not I am in very much a need for a new
> > Cobol Compiler for Windows that runs in both 64 bit and 32 OS.
>
> > Thank you in advance for any help. I am currently looking to upgrade/
> > move to Microfocus but I find that this is an expensive option. One
> > which I had not budgeted for.
>
> You may want to consider running a virtual machine wherein you can run any
> such problematic stuff. That has the additional benefit of (usually)
> insulating the real machine from any horrendous crashes induced by the old
> rubbish.

Hi Kerry, That sounds like a great idea. I have never attempted to do
this, but if I upgrade my Windows 7 to Professional or Ultimate, it
sounds very fesible. This way I can run in the best of two worlds.
Thank you.


You are welcome. By the way, there are other solutions that do not involve
running the Windows virtualization solution (and therefore needing to
upgrade your Win7 to the correct "flavour") - check out the free Virtualbox
(for example) at http://www.virtualbox.org/

Some googling may yield other alternatives to 'the big boys' ... I know MS
Virtualization likely works, but it irritates me that you have to have just
the right version of Vista or Win7 or you are out of luck (sort of a
multi-caste operating system where pecking order is somehow important).
Anyway, the concept is the same regardless. Enjoy the adventure of it.


From: Pete Dashwood on 23 Apr 2010 21:31
Russ Finley wrote:
> On Apr 23, 11:12 am, "Kerry Liles"
> <kerry.removethisandoneperiod.li...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Russ Finley" <netsoftdu...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:14e18848-5e8f-45f7-b379-7ab4409f1091(a)x3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> I just upgraded my PC hardware to 64 bit OS and now of course, I am
>>> having problems running some of my programs. One particular thorny
>>> issue is with my old cobol compiler. It wont run under the new
>>> Windows 7.0 64 bit OS. SO not I am in very much a need for a new
>>> Cobol Compiler for Windows that runs in both 64 bit and 32 OS.
>>
>>> Thank you in advance for any help. I am currently looking to
>>> upgrade/ move to Microfocus but I find that this is an expensive
>>> option. One which I had not budgeted for.
>>
>> You may want to consider running a virtual machine wherein you can
>> run any such problematic stuff. That has the additional benefit of
>> (usually) insulating the real machine from any horrendous crashes
>> induced by the old rubbish.
>
> Hi Kerry, That sounds like a great idea. I have never attempted to do
> this, but if I upgrade my Windows 7 to Professional or Ultimate, it
> sounds very fesible. This way I can run in the best of two worlds.
> Thank you.

Kerry's advice is very sound. Virtualization is a very good solution.

I run two versions of COBOL in different virtual machines (each resident on
a flash drive/ memory stick).

Sun Virtual Box serves me very well and is free. (I fact I'm writing this on
a virtual machine that is resident within my normal development machine.) I
run C# and Visual Studio 2008 in the real machine, and COBOL (whichever
version) in the virtual machine. Planned extension of the virtual
environment to support Windows 7 will start as soon as I can manage it and
after the selection of new hardware, which is coming up.

Networking works fine, the Virtual machines share the printer, and the whole
arrangement is very simple, once you have sorted the initial configuration.
Sun have a very good help file but it pays to read it before diving in :-)

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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