TinyCOBOL is a COBOL compiler being actively developed by members of the 
free software community.

The long term goal is to produce a COBOL compiler which is 'COBOL 85 standard'
compliant, or at least as close as reasonably possible.

TinyCOBOL supports the x86-32 (IA32) architecture and the following platforms.

- Linux using the GNU compiler tool chain.
- FreeBSD using the GNU compiler tool chain.
- Win32 using the MinGW (Mingw32) GNU compiler tool chain.  
- Win32 using the Cygwin GNU compiler tool chain and Cygwin POSIX emulation layer.

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How to install and build (and install from source) TinyCOBOL:

See INSTALL for information on the Linux, BSD and many POSIX x86-32 platforms. 
See 'Readme.mingw32.txt' for information on the MinGW (Mingw32) Win32 platforms.
See 'Readme.cygwin.txt' for information on the Cygwin Win32 platforms.

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Release Notes:

TinyCOBOL only supports x86-32 platforms. 
There are no plans to support the x86-64 platforms.

Record and file lock are not currently implemented.

Berkeley's DB library (verions 1.85 - 4.6 using the 1.85 compatibility API) is 
used for indexed file IO and the SORT run-time functions.
As of version 0.64, the indexed file format has changed and is incompatable
with previous TinyCOBOL indexed file format versions. 
Also note that BDB database file formats can be incompatible between BDB versions.   

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How to download a source snapshot from CVS:

If you have CVS installed on your system, TinyCOBOL's CVS version can be 
checked out via the anonymous CVS (pserver) server, using the following commands.
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tiny-cobol.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tiny-cobol login
- When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tiny-cobol.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tiny-cobol co development
- The module you wish to check out must be specified as the module-name (development).

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Links:  

Home pages:
http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tinycobol.org/
http://br.tinycobol.org/

Download:
http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/devel/lang/cobol/
http://br.tinycobol.org/download.html

Mailing lists and archives:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tiny-cobol-users

Mailing lists and archives (pt_BR):
http://listas.cipsga.org.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cobol-br
http://listas.cipsga.org.br/pipermail/cobol-br/

Old mailing list archives:
http://www.egroups.com/group/gnucobol/

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The term 'COBOL 85 standard', as used by TinyCOBOL, refers to the combination
of the following.
- ISO 1985.........: Programming Languages - COBOL.
- ISO 1989-1.......: Programming Languages - Intrinsic Function Module - COBOL.
- ANSI X3.23-1985..: Programming Languages - COBOL.
- ANSI X3.23a-1989.: Programming Languages - Intrinsic Function Module - COBOL.
- X/Open XPG3......: COBOL programming language extensions.

Note that the 'COBOL 85 standard' is obsolete and has been replaced by the 
'COBOL 2002 standard'.