Yesterday, we announced a new application being developed that is retro-styled and written to allow genealogists with much older equipment to work on their family tree being compliant to the GEDCOM standards, free from application nuances and fast. Today, the structure of the loading is outlined since the successful loading of the GEDCOM file is …
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.
COBOL on a Mac
If you are thinking about trying out the COBOL programming language and you have a macOS computer, I will outline afew ways to get you started. The first option is to install the last stable version of GnuCOBOL and the second, is to install one of the upcoming versions. I personally used opton 1 initially …
