William,

>    I was wondering if any knows how to how to run a cobol xl within a posix
>shell using c? I have some Cobol routines that I want to use in a C
>environment so I can create a DCE RPC application. Thanks for your help.

I happen to have some example of a GNU gcc program calling a COBOL/iX
subroutine from an XL (a session trace showing compile and link, as far
as I recall by now). I will send it to you in an offline message.

Lars (trying so save list bandwidth)