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Fujitsu
COBOL Support for Students
Fujitsu COBOL was the name used
for products that are now sold under the NetCOBOL brand name.
Content
Fujitsu
Software is firmly committed to the academic community and
we want to do our part in helping train new COBOL programmers.
We have a long-term vision for COBOL, seeing it as a major
player in the application development arena for a long time
to come. This page describes the free assistance we provide
to COBOL students. We believe that COBOL has a bright future.
Our intention is to continue to invest in creating quality
tools and COBOL compiler technology to help ensure the long-term
success of the world's most popular programming language.
Software
If you are an academic institution looking for a COBOL development
environment to support your COBOL classes, visit the Pricing
Center for details about our Academic Licensing.
For those of you who are learning COBOL on your own or taking
a COBOL class and need a COBOL compiler to experiment with
- but NOT create production applications - we provide Fujitsu
COBOL Version 3 for FREE. Note that this is a back-level version
of Fujitsu COBOL. It provides support for ANSI Standard COBOL,
many Fujitsu COBOL extensions, is fully Windows compatible,
and contains a complete set of softcopy manuals. It is not
a product we actively support and as such it is not viable
for creating production applications; however, it is fully
stable and excellent for most COBOL exercises.
To receive your free student version, simply fill out the
short registration form and download the software. The download
is 11.7 MB.
Click
here for a full description of Fujitsu COBOL Version 3
Click
here to register for and download your FREE student version
of Fujitsu COBOL
If you are using Windows 2000 & Windows XP and have challenges
making Version 3 work, read the Windows
2000 & Windows XP Application Compatibility Tips.
Sample
Programs
Click here to view a list
of free Version 3 sample programs that you can download.
Softcopy
Manuals
The following manuals document the student version of Fujitsu
COBOL. They are in PDF format. You must have Adobe Acrobat
Reader to view these files. You may obtain the latest PDF
reader directly from Adobe.
To speed downloading, the files are zipped. Download and unzip
a file before viewing it with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click
on one of the links below to begin downloading a file.
Fujitsu
COBOL Getting Started (11.1 Mb)
Fujitsu COBOL User's Guide
(6.4 Mb)
Fujitsu COBOL Language Reference
(2.8 Mb)
Fujitsu COBOL Debugging Guide
(1.1 Mb)
PowerCOBOL User's Guide
(8.9 Mb)
PowerCOBOL Programmer's Guide
(388 Kb)
General
COBOL Books
See our Recommended Books page for a list of books that can
help you learn or master COBOL, some of which include trial
versions of Fujitsu COBOL.
Support
We provide basic, getting-started-with-Fujitsu-COBOL support
for students using Fujitsu COBOL Version 3, but we do not
provide standard telephone or email support for this product.
However,
there are Internet forums that have a number of people who
are using or are knowledgeable about Fujitsu COBOL Version
3. A good place to start is at comp.lang.cobol a discussion
group on the Web for those interested in all COBOL language
and usage matters. The participants are usually happy to answer
all serious questions, but object strongly if they sense anyone
is trying to get easy answers to homework assignments!
Links
The following sites contain information of interest to COBOL
students:
The COBOL
Center (http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/)
Upgrading
Once you have learned COBOL using Fujitsu COBOL Version 3
and are ready to create production applications, you will
need to upgrade to the latest version of Fujitsu COBOL. Visit
the Pricing Center for
details.
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