Crazy COBOL system, need help with cob2csv

I've just been hired at a new company, and with this new job comes a
new database system for me to update. They now have a custom built
COBOL software running their db, as I'm not the slightest bit
accustomed to COBOL, having only been born in 83 :).

I have however been reading up quite a bit on the situation I'm in, as
it seems as if there are others in very similar ones. However I
haven't noticed one quite like mine. This system was built in the
early 80's and was designed and written by one man who has since passed
away. Unfortunately it doesnt seem that this gentleman designed by the
same set of rules that most did during the "COBOL Era" as I've seen
mention of copybook files and a seperate file for the db, however, the
system I'm working with is made up of lots and lots of .CBL, files that
contain a section of the code that appears to be the copybook, and then
the source. Then there are lots and lots of these files with no
extensions, but they appear to be binary db files, as i can make out
some of the plain text as db items.

So my question is how can I use cob2csv with this system? Do i copy
paste the copybook section into a seperate file?

Please, Please Help!!!

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  • Re: Crazy COBOL system, need help with cob2csv
    ... contain a section of the code that appears to be the copybook, ... Cob2csv is written in MicroFocus Cobol but should be easily converted ... more recent MF compiler, cob2csv I posted here some months ago will do ... Output data file: cob2csv.out ...
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    ... rename the files that i have (the ones with the copybook info) to have ... Cob2csv is written in MicroFocus Cobol but should be easily converted ... more recent MF compiler, cob2csv I posted here some months ago will do ... Output data file: cob2csv.out ...
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