Always Learning wrote: <snip> > Thanks for the Ubuntu recommendation. I tend to buy the DVD's and > install from them. I have VBox running Win98SE on a Centos desktop > because I want to run software and applications from 1992 (my own DOS > Cobol database) which also runs in DosBox, 1993 (my customised Ami Pro Why not install gcc, and recompile your COBOL for Linux? <g> <snip> mark, pulling a brown paper bag over his head before admitting to having written a *lot* of COBOL back before I got to Unix