That would have been a 360/370 IBM Mini. The 3270 was the "smart" terminal.
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Yes, I use database libraries all the time with C/C++. Given Gnu COBOL
had utilized the Berkley DB so they could provide full (or at least
nearly complete) language syntax I had hoped Gnu Fortran did the same.
C/C++ never provided any indexed file or "record" level support. FORTRAN
always did, so I had hopes.
Thanks,
Roland
On 3/8/23 08:30, Arjen Markus wrote:
Well, that is indeed something completely different.My main frame of
reference (pun not intentional) of that era was our IBM mini, I am not
quite sure of the type number, 3270? It had a very specific record
structure for unformatted files. Normally that was almost completely
hidden, except in the job control, but when we started exchanging data
files with the personal computers that were then coming out, I could
write programs that did the necessary conversions. Jolly good fun. My
department did not use VAXes, other departments did.
So, in your case these files contain data identifiable via some index.
Hm, today you would do that via some library instead of via some
builtin language feature, at least when using Fortran, C, C++, ...
Regards,
Arjen
Op wo 8 mrt 2023 om 14:31 schreef Roland Hughes via Fortran
<fortran@gcc.gnu.org>:
Thank you!
On 3/8/2023 1:57 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On 7 March 2023 23:18:58 CET, Roland Hughes via Fortran
<fortran@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> [ snip namelist IO ]
>
>> Btw, is there a "search" utility for the archives or do I have
to pull down all of the zip files, unzip into directory, and grep
to look for stuff like this? I'm guessing it has come up before.
> Indeed we have
> https://inbox.sourceware.org/fortran/
>
> along the traditional pipermail ml interface.
>
> thanks,
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