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RWCS - Report Writer for gc v3.2 onwards By Vincent (Bryan) Coen on Wed Jan 28, 2026 01:23 AM	12	225	By Chuck Haatvedt on Sat Feb 07, 2026 09:12 PM
FreeDOS 1.4 By Ralph Linkletter on Thu Apr 10, 2025 05:57 PM	4	230	By Juan Carlos Escartí on Sat Jan 24, 2026 06:55 AM
What is the best editor for GnuCOBOL? By celsofigueiredo on Tue Apr 28, 2020 05:53 PM	65	6281	By Marco Antoniotti on Thu Nov 27, 2025 08:14 PM
How to Configure tasks.json for Superbol with EXEC SQL on Windows 11? By compiletaro on Fri Nov 14, 2025 07:53 AM	2	137	By Simon Sobisch on Fri Nov 14, 2025 09:42 AM
SUPERBOL first use By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Fri Nov 07, 2025 06:35 PM	3	164	By Marco Antoniotti on Sat Nov 08, 2025 05:24 PM
GNU-COBOL/SQL By Jorge Kusznir on Fri Nov 07, 2025 08:54 PM	3	199	By Ralph Linkletter on Fri Nov 07, 2025 10:21 PM
Currency Sign needs at point of RUNNING a suite of programs By Vincent (Bryan) Coen on Mon Oct 20, 2025 03:58 PM	37	512	By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Fri Oct 31, 2025 06:35 PM
GC on Windows 10 By Gregory A Failing on Mon Aug 25, 2025 01:06 PM	21	425	By Michael Del Solio on Mon Oct 20, 2025 12:25 PM
Realia - installing GnuCobol to work with Realia programs and files By Anonymous on Wed Oct 01, 2025 10:04 PM	15	250	By Marco Antoniotti on Sun Oct 05, 2025 08:13 PM
Installing GnuCobol 3.2 with vbisam 2.2 By serge lacombe on Wed Oct 01, 2025 12:14 PM	2	130	By Simon Sobisch on Thu Oct 02, 2025 07:53 PM
COBOL Extensions for VS Codium By Rich Di Iulio on Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:50 AM	29	451	By Simon Sobisch on Tue Sep 30, 2025 09:57 PM
Windows 11 system cannot find cobc.exe By gus schultz on Thu Jul 10, 2025 05:22 PM	12	621	By Anonymous on Tue Sep 30, 2025 05:06 AM
Problem installing gnucobol 3.2 By serge lacombe on Sat Sep 20, 2025 01:04 PM	3	136	By Anonymous on Sun Sep 21, 2025 04:13 PM
Wrong compiler error message ? By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Fri Sep 12, 2025 05:47 PM	3	77	By Simon Sobisch on Sun Sep 14, 2025 09:27 PM
MENU reserved word By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Sun Sep 14, 2025 04:54 PM	3	72	By Simon Sobisch on Sun Sep 14, 2025 08:52 PM
FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF & NATIONAL-OF By Morten Juhl Hansen on Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:42 AM	2	88	By Simon Sobisch on Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:02 PM
Getting to an executable on MacOS By Alan Honeyman on Fri Sep 05, 2025 10:35 AM	10	139	By Alan Honeyman on Mon Sep 08, 2025 01:52 AM
LLM usage to create COBOL code... still fails By Ralph Linkletter on Sun Aug 31, 2025 10:33 PM	4	160	By Mickey White on Mon Sep 01, 2025 02:14 PM
Issue with GCSORT using temporary files and fixed-length records – v0... By Leonardo Barbieri on Mon Jun 16, 2025 09:45 PM	16	483	By Simon Sobisch on Wed Aug 20, 2025 03:36 PM
Accepting data from screen section By Jim French on Mon Jul 14, 2025 01:44 PM	14	228	By Anonymous on Tue Jul 15, 2025 11:11 AM
Wildcard expansion quit working By Michael F Gleason on Wed Jun 25, 2025 11:23 PM	8	209	By Simon Sobisch on Thu Jul 03, 2025 06:31 AM
Program Guide typo By Michael F Gleason on Sun Jun 15, 2025 09:24 PM	19	278	By Vincent (Bryan) Coen on Mon Jun 30, 2025 05:04 PM
SEARCH problem By Maurizio Bongini on Mon Jun 09, 2025 08:57 AM	9	232	By Anonymous on Tue Jun 24, 2025 12:32 AM
gnuCobol debugger for macOS By David Bourne on Wed Apr 30, 2025 11:35 PM	13	266	By David Bourne on Fri Jun 20, 2025 05:17 PM
COBOL Trace File Not Getting Created in CHUI on Linux (GNU COBOL 2.2,... By Anshul Agrawal on Thu Jun 12, 2025 06:28 AM	4	110	By Simon Sobisch on Thu Jun 12, 2025 05:56 PM

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