...making Linux just a little more fun!
[ In reference to "From Assembler to COBOL with the Aid of Open Source" in LG#126 ]
Owen Townsend [owen at uvsoftware.ca]
Edgar Howell:
I was searching for an Assembler to COBOL converter and found & enjoyed your article at http://linuxgazette.net/126/TWDT.html
Could you tell me the conversion tool used to convert assembler to COBOL ?
Do you also know of a PL/1 to COBOL converter ?
I, Owen Townsend, owen@uvsoftware.ca, website www.uvsoftware.ca have tools to convert mainframe JCL to Korn shell scripts
& mainframe COBOL to Micro Focus COBOL
& EBCDIC DATA to ASCII preserving any packed/binary data.
I have had questions from prospects asking about assembler & PL/1 conversion so would be interested in finding tools for these conversions.
Please look at my web site. You might be interested in downloading my free 'uvhd' utility from www.uvsoftware.ca/libuvhd.htm
- file investigation utility
- displays data in vertical hexadecimal
- great for files with packed/binary data
- browse, search, select, update
I am listing it in the GNU FSF directory.
Thanks, Owen
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
2008/8/1 Owen Townsend <owen@uvsoftware.ca>:
> Please look at my web site. You might be interested in downloading > my free 'uvhd' utility from www.uvsoftware.ca/libuvhd.htm > - file investigation utility > - displays data in vertical hexadecimal > - great for files with packed/binary data > - browse, search, select, update > > I am listing it in the GNU FSF directory.
I just hope that you realise that the FSF, if they choose to list it at all, will more than likely preface it with a warning against the use of your other software, as it is proprietary.
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
[re cc:ing tag]
2008/8/1 Owen Townsend <owen@uvsoftware.ca>:
> Jimmy: > > Yes, I would expect that. I hope you will try out uvhd & let me know > if it could be useful to you ? > It has proven useful to most of my customers converting mainframes > to Linux & working with mainframe type files with packed/binary fields. > I think it should be useful to Linux users at large since there are > lots of linux files with binary contents not easily viewed with vi, etc.
Sounds interesting. I've had some experience with AS/400s in college, and remember having quite a lot of trouble getting data out of them. But that's firmly in the past. I will bear it in mind, though, the next time I feel the urge to tinker with some binary file.
Deividson Okopnik [deivid.okop at gmail.com]
He really should mail to the whole TAG next time