Re: F77 indexed file support

[Arjen Markus <arjen.markus895@gmail.com>]

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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 <roland@logikalsolutions.com
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> 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.
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> C/C++ never provided any indexed file or "record" level support. FORTRAN
> always did, so I had hopes.
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> 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!
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>> 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:
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>> > [ snip namelist IO ]
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>> >> 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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