[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[Dave Froble]

On 6/23/2022 10:14 AM, David Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 12:08:21 AM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>> Way, way, back, it was determined that due to the lack of adequate channels in
>> Basic+, 12 to be precise, it would be advisable to have a single file that could
>> be used for different types of data. Things with just a few records, such as
>> maybe 20 terms codes, 50 state codes, and others. We even called it a "codes
>> file".
>
> That's the kind of thing SQLite is great at when used as what they call an
> application file format. MacOS uses it for several of their applications now,
> though they build the library without load extension capability.
>

Yes, today, and that's what I'd be looking at today.  But we're talking about 
something from 48 years ago, which still does the job today.  Lots of better 
options today.  Might even be more tomorrow.  But it's not broke, so why fix it?

Actually, not only is it not broke, it has utilities for ease of use.  For a 
"more modern" (I hated typing that) implementation perhaps the utilities for 
ease of use might still be required to be developed.

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