Right, 3270 was the terminal. Wonderful beasts :). Anyway, this reminded me of an experiment I did a couple of years ago with wrapping the BerkeleyDB library in Fortran. I never had much use for it, but it works for small enough value of "work".
But this is diverting a lot from the purpose of this mailing list. Regards, Arjen Op wo 8 mrt 2023 om 16:21 schreef Roland Hughes <rol...@logikalsolutions.com >: > That would have been a 360/370 IBM Mini. The 3270 was the "smart" terminal. > > > https://imgs.search.brave.com/9CW5yhzliePl3PmZJJad0-GoiArzOyOIKkKfa0cntW8/rs:fit:640:540:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBp/bmltZy5jb20vb3Jp/Z2luYWxzLzRlL2Nk/L2JlLzRlY2RiZTBl/YjQ0YmFlNGUzOTQ4/YjVlNDk2MWY1OWMx/LmpwZw > > 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, >> >> -- >> Roland Hughes, President >> Logikal Solutions >> (630)-205-1593 (cell) >> http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com >> http://www.infiniteexposure.net >> http://www.johnsmith-book.com >> >> -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.comhttp://www.infiniteexposure.nethttp://www.johnsmith-book.comhttp://www.logikalblog.comhttp://www.interestingauthors.com/blog > >
