Eugenio Di Lorenzo

GnuCOBOL File-AID is ready for use. GnuCOBOL File-AID is an interactive software product that enhances program development and record maintenance. GnuCOBOL File-AID allows you to browse, edit, copy, and delete records in indexed files that use the BDB (Berkeley Data Base) indexed access method. Record processing and information retrieval are extremely fast, thereby accelerating a programmer's workflow. This product emulates the functions of a corresponding tool available on mainframe systems. It...

To follow up on this post, I’d like to point out that the release of version 1.0 is available at this address: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/contrib/thread/cd3ff50fd1/?limit=50#4a22

GnuCOBOL File-AID is ready for use. GnuCOBOL File-AID is an interactive software product that enhances program development and record maintenance. GnuCOBOL File-AID allows you to browse, edit, copy, and delete records in indexed files that use the BDB (Berkeley Data Base) indexed access method. Record processing and information retrieval are extremely fast, thereby accelerating a programmer's workflow. This product emulates the functions of a corresponding tool available on mainframe systems. It...

GnuCOBOL File-AID is ready for use. GnuCOBOL File-AID is an interactive software product that enhances program development and record maintenance. GnuCOBOL File-AID allows you to browse, edit, copy, and delete records in indexed files that use the BDB (Berkeley Data Base) indexed access method. Record processing and information retrieval are extremely fast, thereby accelerating a programmer's workflow. This product emulates the functions of a corresponding tool available on mainframe systems. It...

Wow! My compliments and congratulations. How was the debugger implemented ? Wouldn't it have been more convenient—both for you (having built and tested it) and for those already familiar with it—to use an existing, functional debugger like COBGDB ? Just asking out of curiosity.

When in Hex mode, modifications must be performed on the hexadecimal values (nibbles); the data displayed as ASCII characters cannot be edited directly. The program ensures that only hexadecimal values from 0 to F are entered. This allows you to modify Packed and Binary fields. You can already try it out using the source code attached to the first post at: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/help/thread/8fb815b5ed/#df20 or wait until I release version 1.0—along with some brief document...

When in Hex mode, modifications must be performed on the hexadecimal values (nibbles); the data displayed as ASCII characters cannot be edited directly. The program ensures that only hexadecimal values from 0 to F are entered. This allows you to modify Packed and Binary fields. You can already try it out using the source code attached to the first post, or wait until I release version 1.0—along with some brief documentation—shortly.

Thanks for the replies. In this initial version of GnuCOBOL File-AID, certain simplifications have been adopted. For example, it is the user's responsibility to know the locations of Packed and Binary fields and, consequently, to ensure that these are only modified when using hexadecimal mode (see attached screenshot).. When viewing data in ASCII character format, the user must avoid modifying data that corresponds to Packed or Binary fields. Such data is displayed as dots during a DISPLAY operation....