[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 29 June 2011]
Hello guys,I am new here, and I come here loaded with a "problem" that needs solved somehow.
This is the brief:
I am myself a consultant/programmer/sysadmin, and I have been trying to help a friend of mine with an application he has running in an old Xenix 3.2.4 system, in an old 386, since 1990 !!!!!!!!!! (original disk!!!!)
We have managed to put the hard disk into another old system, and with knoppix we did a "dd" of the disk through NFS into my linux laptop, and also burned a few copies to CDrom.
I then managed to extract the files (the Xenix file system spec is actually wrong in one spot and it took us a while to figure that out), and I have the tarball and also the full file system (complete) with all the files available, and properly untarred, without corruption. Took me and some other genius buddy of mine 3 months to figure that out !
Now, I have the following problem. The application runs using the "runcobol" program, which in itself seems to be an old 286 (16bit) application. Most of the files in the application are ".obj" files, I assume they are compiled cobol files.
I have put the files into a trial version of SCO openserver 5.0.7 (running in VMware in my linux laptop), and every time I execute runcobol (I suspect it is automagically loading its 286 emulator), it just crashes (memory fault).
I would like to know if you know of someone really knowledgeable in this area, so that they may be able to help us to recreate a runcobol program that will run on Sco Openserver, or maybe move this to Linux, I don't know what would be best at this point.
thanks a lot, I really hope there is someone here with the necessary knowledge to help me out.
We are willing to pay consulting fees !
