I am adding this post to provide some insights into the coding structures required for defining and calling custom functions with GnuCOBOL. 000001 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000002 PROGRAM-ID. TEST. 000003* Purpose of this program is demonstrate the use of functions 000004* by defining a simple function to increment a number. 000005 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000006 CONFIGURATION SECTION. …
RetroGen – Simplification
Afew months ago, as I neared completion of the GEDCOM loading module within RetroGen, I stopped developing while I pondered over a dilemna. My initial goal, somewhat noble, was to develop a genealogy program using old programming language and database support to support the entire breath of the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. As my coding neared …
RetroGen – August update
The month of July had highs and lows with experimenting with different old terminal types for displaying box drawing graphics from the 1970s to reviewing GEDCOM loading. I was concerned about privacy given some of my earlier posts had genealogy data so these were removed. I was able to find and use other fictitious GEDCOM …
RetroGen – Privacy
Due to privacy concerns, I have removed some posts and tweets with genealogy data. This is unfortunate since some of the features are best shown with larger sets of data.
