On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:53:09 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: > >We finally agree on something. One of the many standards we >implemented at a company I worked for was that a program could *NOT* >use display upon console for *ANYTHING*.
There *might* be exceptions, but they would be very rare. When I was just starting out in the early '70s, we had a few "checkwriting" programs that printed checks on continuous forms that had the check numbers pre-printed on them. Does anyone still do that? Part of the application requirement was that the ledger be updated with the check number. This required that the printer be allocated to the program and that there be some communication with the operator. There was one such checkwriter program that was being tested and the message came out in the console, "POSION THE FROMS". The operators couldn't figure out what it meant. Dave was a very talented programmer, but couldn't spell to save his life. The message should have said something like "Position and align the check forms in the printer". -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
