Goal

A brief introduction to Tiny Cobol for those who are new to either Tiny Cobol or Cobol in general, taking the reader through looking at Cobol, a first program and a more complicated program using make.

New Versions of This Document

The latest version of this document can be found on the Tiny Cobol website at http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net.

Copyrights

This document is Copyright Jonathan Riddell 2001.

You may copy and distribute it only under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Thanks

Thanks to the Tiny Cobol team and especially to Rildo Pragana (http://www.pragana.net/) our faithful leader.

Thanks to Richard Bland, my lecturer and teacher of all things Cobol.

Cheers also to the people from Debian for including a working sgmltools program. It's much appreciated.

Translations

There are no translations of this document yet, but any helpers are welcome.

And yes, this document is in British English. Brackets are like this (), and periods are something girls have every month. Think yourself lucky I didn't put it in Scots.