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  1. Crox

    Office 2021 Set Colors

    Try to save the text below with extension SLK and load it into any version of excel. You will see several Multiplan colors. Save it with a different extension, copy and paste.... and enjoy the SLK format, which is easy to create out of a program, because it is pure ASCII. ID;PWXL;N;E P;PGeneral...
  2. Crox

    LE COBOL

    there is a way, using the language environment. I made my own error handler in COBOL. It works excellent and it survives all abends. Fun. Look it up in the manuals how to do this.
  3. Crox

    Linkage Section Initialization

    The linkage section is in fact not a storage area of the program in which it is defined. The calling program makes that area available, but only when everything is going the right way. When the called module with its linkage section is called, only a pointer is given, to point to that area, but...
  4. Crox

    SPF / ISPF / PDF / SPF365 / etc. ALL about editing on mainframe and PC with mainframe look-alike

    SDSF is still living! REXX is still living CLIST is still living IBM is more of continuing thing, not of throwing away! 😊 So programs that are over 30 years old, can work every day, no trouble. Very different compared to Java environment where programs mostly don't live longer than 2...
  5. Crox

    SPF / ISPF / PDF / SPF365 / etc. ALL about editing on mainframe and PC with mainframe look-alike

    The latest download link is: https://github.com/michaelknigge/spf-editor/releases/tag/v365.3454.25 The icon you get after installing is SPF365. The installed directory and path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\SPFSE365\Graphic\Bin\SPF80GE.exe So I call it SPF365, one of the many names that type of...
  6. Crox

    SPF / ISPF / PDF / SPF365 / etc. ALL about editing on mainframe and PC with mainframe look-alike

    Hi everybody, If you are familiar with ISPF mainframe editing, I like to give anyone my ISPF mainframe quick-ref for ISPF editing. The line commands are similar on the PC. One of the advantages of the PC mainframe-look-alike version - for example - is that the command-line is much longer and...
  7. Crox

    MAINFRAME EXPRESS 3.0

    ever thought of using GNU COBOL? It is free, has no royalty problem, good for development I think..... 😁
  8. Crox

    💥 did you see chatbot COBOL source? And.... did you like it or was it even clean compiled?? 🤣

    Thanks! Exactly! The chatbots know almost nothing of COBOL. I even see typical Javascript terminology in the proposed source. Also the columns are wrong. Even the typical student questions for COBOL are not answered. There is a very long way to go before COBOL is correctly generated by any...
  9. Crox

    💥 did you see chatbot COBOL source? And.... did you like it or was it even clean compiled?? 🤣

    Great talks about Chatbots nowadays. It would even be able to write COBOL. 😂🤣😂🤣 I tried a lot, but even a clean compile is not possible. What did you experience? Thanks! 😁
  10. Crox

    cobol can not this and that..... pffff

    Can anybody chis correct google search with its nonsense like below? In 1981 I started with Realia COBOL 2.0 and it was already able to do dynamic memory allocation. It had a machine level interface so one was for example able to read the status of the keyboard. I had a program that opened a...
  11. Crox

    python calculator from Texas Instruments

    Hi, nowadays people can use a Texas Instruments calculator working with Python when they do a mathematics exam. So now I am wondering. Is buying such a calculator and working through the manual a good way to become very familiar with Python? 😊
  12. Crox

    How To Determine Encoding Of A File - And see the contents in Hex

    As a COBOL programmer, using the free editor SPFLite can be of much help. See http://spflite.com/ It is a mainframe look-alike editor with all kinds of commands, file profiles, ..... Also there is an old utility RCOPY from Computer Associates that can concert EBCDIC into ASCII and the other...
  13. Crox

    new to c#

    if you ever saw the commenting assembler that was sold by V-communications, you would understand what I mean. The comment was really impressive smart.
  14. Crox

    new to c#

    Hi, I am new to c#. Are there some tools to convert from gwbasic to c#? Are there some tools to convert from cobol to c#? Is there a utility that comments c# source that helps new people? Thanks!
  15. Crox

    some pictures...

    Our COBOL society seems sleeping, so I answer with the results..... 😂 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 1 999999999V999999999 = ,000.000.010 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 = 1 999999999V999999999 = 10.000.000,000.000.000 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 2 999999999V999999999 =...
  16. Crox

    select no. of rows from a table.

    somewhere on the internet there is a pdf manual to be found for free, containing SQL COOKBOOK. I used the tips in it many times. Very easy to use. Try to get it. about ISPF: do in edit something like this: PROF NONSENSE put an 'a' in the margin and give command MODEL You will find some ready...
  17. Crox

    some pictures...

    Ever played with pictures? Looking for extreme results? Below an example. Try to know without testing/compiling what to expect. Just for fun. 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. PTEST. 000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000400 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000500 SOURCE-COMPUTER. IBM-PC...
  18. Crox

    COBFD was a very usefull program. Perhaps we can create one ourself in GNU COBOL? 😁

    yes Mikrom, it sure is a nice program. I can use a COBOL implementation for my own, new environment that will work with GNU COBOL. I hoped that someone had something usable. But if not, after a few weeks, I will make a similar program myself. If possible, I will publish it here as an executable...
  19. Crox

    COBFD was a very usefull program. Perhaps we can create one ourself in GNU COBOL? 😁

    you can write many solutions in any language. You can know a little of many languages. You can know a lot of one or a few, being a specialist, making libraries, source parts that can help you building a lot and smart things. In COBOL you can do a lot. That is why this language became very...
  20. Crox

    COBFD was a very usefull program. Perhaps we can create one ourself in GNU COBOL? 😁

    I remember now I saw his name before, Michael Mattias. Fun that he wrote this in BASIC. 😂

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