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 …
GnuCOBOL Functions
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 by 000004* 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.
