[mdlug] OT: Windows XP + Cygwin + OpenCOBOL, spells oops!

[Robert Citek]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Richard Staff <rstaff at sprynet.com> wrote:
> In order to deal with a work related challenge of some old PC COBOL
> programs, I went looking for "free" and/or "open" COBOL compilers.
> OpenCOBOL seemed to be the solution, however, we are a Windows XP shop
> and OpenCOBOL requires a *nix environment.

Any chance of running Linux in a VM under Windows?  For example,
OpenCobol is available as a .deb package under Ubuntu:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=open-cobol&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

Regards,
- Robert