On 20 Dec 97 at 11:13, F. Alfredo Rego wrote:

On PDF.  As it happens I publish a number of items in PDF.  These
vary from computer maps to DIY game components.  However, the object
of the exercise at hand is to allow management access to financial
archive information generated on the HP3000.  These records date back
to 1990 and are all basically spool files output to disc first and
then retained.

The advantage of the approach that we have taken is that all of this
data is now readily available without having to schedule special jobs
or modifying any of our job files or report programs.  It is a zero
impact solution.  If we were to undertake to convert these files to
PDF then this would require transferring each of them to a PC, and
there are multiple reports for every month since November 1990.  Then
each file would need to be distilled.  Then each would have to
be put back onto the HP3000.  However, the existing files and
file format need to be retained as well.  Then we would need to set
up a procedure, undoubtedly manual, that would do the same thing for
every month to come.  This is not a zero impact solution.

Despite my natural inclination to avoid hard work, I'll probably bang
out a java applet to do what I want.  I've got a skeleton done
already.

> At any rate, Jim, how are you doing with your Adager MemoCubes?  If
> you are OK, perhaps you want to designate a worthy recipient (such
> as your visionary company owners) for the well-deserved extra Adager
> MemoCube that you have earned with the factual comments in the
> latest report of your HP3000 accomplishments.


It's funny you should say that!** My daughter found my last
Guatemalan Cube (Interex Detroit 86) in my desk at home only last
week. As I cast about for it in vain as I write this it appears that
this has gone the way of all flesh.  If you wish to send me one I
am more than willing to accept it.

The visionary company owner is asleep upstairs.  All husbands work
for their wives, but I have convinced mine to pay me.

By the way, the .exrc that Brian Duncombe sent me does indeed map the
arrow keys to move the cursor inside the POSiX shell vi.   But I
prefer Qedit.  A user, your name escapes me and I am at home so
I don't have your original message to refer to,  provided a useful
command sequence to mimic a ! functionality.  But a native
implementation of the ! in the shell would be a really nice touch for
Qedit.  And I know that Robelle delights in "nice touches" with their
products.

Regards,
Jim

** Maxwell Smart, 1966.
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