Yet another chit chat.
After installing Cobol on the Nslu2 running Debian, still had to load some libraries after and update to Debian. A learning experience. One of the test programs I played with to relearn cobol. Cobol is so self documenting. ~$ ./readtest 6543218 Mend ed 1234 1957 1234567 Corona ra 5555 1958 :~$ cat STUDENTS.DAT 6543218Mend ed 195707141234m 1234567Corona ra195806135555f ~$ ~$ cat readtest.cob IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. SeqReadNo88. AUTHOR. Michael Coughlan. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. FILE-CONTROL. SELECT StudentFile ASSIGN TO "STUDENTS.DAT" ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL. DATA DIVISION. FILE SECTION. FD StudentFile. 01 StudentDetails. 02 StudentId PIC 9(7). 02 StudentName. 03 Surname PIC X(8). 03 Initials PIC XX. 02 DateOfBirth. 03 YOBirth PIC 9(4). 03 MOBirth PIC 9(2). 03 DOBirth PIC 9(2). 02 CourseCode PIC X(4). 02 Gender PIC X...