San Diego-based Acucobol Inc, one of the lesser-known leaders in portable Cobol compilers, has Version 2.0 of its Acucobol-85 out. A full rewrite of the V1.5.5 release, it is claimed to add 86 significant new features and performance enhancements to the ANSI-85 Cobol compiler, including the Vision indexed file system, which enables files to be moved between machines without conversions, making them as portable as code files, and Vision can be replaced with another file system – Btrieve, C-ISAM or MINISAM. Support for relational databases will be added soon.The terminal manager now offers hot keys that can be defined to run with an associated program, and shadows and titles for windowing. A C interface enables users to call Cobol routines from C and vice versa. Acucobol-85 V2.0 is available for IBM Corp AIX, Data General Corp AOS, Apple Computer Inc A/UX, MS-DOS, OS/2, AT&T Co Unix, Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix, Xenix and Digital Equipment Corp VMS operating systems; no prices.
