Monthly Archives: August 2023

My desktop programs have no icons on the menu (if that’s what it’s called) or below the menu. For example no diskette icon for “Save”. It’s not just Writer. Desktop… Laptop has them… Found a solution here.

Small change. Ask how many primes to generate. The mainframe program is expecting and accepts this from the card-reader.

Seemingly, out of nowhere my Laptop mouse started acting very erratic. I tried my desktop mouse…same thing! It didn’t take long before I realized it was the fat Lexar USB flash drive crowded in next to it. I even switched the USB slot…same thing! Mouse worked fine once I removed the Lexar. A USB extension …

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In testing the gnuCOBOL program yesterday I used time as I usually do… time ./gnuPrime This produced at the end… However I found another formatted, way (the leading backslash is required, for some reason)… This produced…

I ported the PRIMCOB1 (Sieve of Eratosthenes) COBOL program included with MVS 3.8j in the TK4- package to gnuCOBOL V3. The old COBOL program can generate prime numbers up to 32767. The gnuCOBOL version doesn’t have that limitation, and I modified it to generate primes up to one million. One of the reasons I did …

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It’s been just over a year since I complained about not having an interesting project to play with. OK I added interesting. I’ve had a few ideas but it’s been a slow year for good ideas. The most recent one of reading a IBM client tape using Basic-Plus in RSTS/E using the simh emulator, was …

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