How To Know What Version Of A Particular Cobol Is On A Windows Machine

[klophockey]

There are several types of Cobol installed on a Windows machine.

Microfocus
Acucobol
IScobol

For each of the types of cobol, what is the command line command that I could type to see the specific version number of each of those cobols?
OR
There may be an easier way in just looking at the file structure of the particular cobol OR some other way.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

 

[johnherman]

If you compile a program, the version will likely appear somewhere in the output. Hope this helps.

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[SamBones]

How to get the exact version depends on the tool. It varies.

If you have the command to run the compiler, adding a switch to it like "-version", "/version", or "/?" might give it to you. Just running the command with no parameters might return the version number.

You can also look under "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)". The directory structure may indicate the version.

If you want to go hard core, you can find its entries in the registry. That will show all kinds of details about the installation, but you run the risk of bricking your system if you don't know what you're doing.

 

[BW Stephens]

You could always check your path as well.. (just we aware that new versions of ACCU are under a Micro focus directory!)