Where I work we still have some Cobol programs in use and I am the only one that supports them. I decided that I needed an easy way to pull the source code to my PC so I could use a slightly more friendly way to review the code and figure out what it does (so I could replace it with C# code).
Turns out that old school is the way to go. I FTP'd into the server, changed into the appropriate library and did a get on the source file I wanted. Very nice and easy. Then I decided why not just pull it all so I did an mget and it worked. Very nice! Dropped all the source onto a Linux box so I could grep it anytime I wanted. Did a WC on it and found that we had about 1.5 million lines of code spread across 7000 programs.
Wanted to share how I did it for others:
cd (some folder here to store the source files)
ftp servername
Enter Username & Password
cd (library here)
prompt (to turn off prompting for each file)
mget source.*
(wait for it to finish)
quit
Enjoy!
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