With some help from the VSI community forum, the VMS calling standard documentation and re-educate myself with 30-year old code, the presenter now works: gives the same output from the dataset designed about 10 years ago. The set contains all file-contents I ever showed on my home screen. There are a few things I still need to reconsider, so it it possible to browse through these texts. The same applies to the newer structures, that will hold more facilities as well. and I still need to test if random access on date (or number) is working – just change the CGI-parameters. It may mean I have to do something in the URL-interpreter. And in the end, I have to clean up the code a bit – remove debug output, or make it configurable.
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center