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More apologies for the delay in activity, hope this release makes up for the hiatus.

Changes...
* Simplified script to skip use of temp files.
* Better display of '88' values.
* Improved picture clause handling, plus added an element to hold the clause as-is.
* Added support for more 'OCCURS' variations
* Sample files include more test cases.

Apologies for the lack of activity. Made some major changes after using it for a couple of projects at work. Will be adding some more enhancements soon. Here are the highlights...

Reworked the parsing of elements, much cleaner now.
Better handling of OCCURS.
Added support for USAGE clause.

This is minor release to remove debugging displays that weren't cleaned up, and disables experimental pic splitting function which isn't ready yet.

This is the initial release. It was a bit hurried so it doesn't have all the features it will have yet. Handles basic copybook stuff only (level, name, pic and basic occurs). Probably more than a few bugs too. Clean-up and next release will be in by Monday.

Announcing the initial release of the bfi-toolkit. No release number assigned yet, still have to figure out how to release files. Once that's figured out, there will be a set of scripts that convert Mainframe Cobol Copybooks to XML. Out of the chute will be support for the basics, then the more complicated stuff will follow.