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[ In reference to "From Assembler to COBOL with the Aid of Open Source" in LG#126 ]

Owen Townsend [owen at uvsoftware.ca]


Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:25:22 -0700

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


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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]


Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:52:04 +0100

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.


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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]


Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:17:05 +0100

[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.


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Deividson Okopnik [deivid.okop at gmail.com]


Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:21:48 -0300

He really should mail to the whole TAG next time


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