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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Best OS for surveying / CAD applications Post 302991351 by Corona688 on Thursday 9th of February 2017 11:56:24 AM

02-09-2017

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Surveying calculations don't, the computing power of a C64 can handle a few simple equations, maps and such take a lot more. I wouldn't call this a dark age for scientific applications, they've got more choices of platforms and languages now than they'd ever imagined, and seem to invent more every day.

But I can't honestly disagree about the dumbing down of computing... I had a real wakeup call when I visited one Christmas holiday to find my father and sister busily tabulating totals from hundreds of megs of spreadsheets by hand. Tabulation being the very literal reason computers as we know them were invented.

Since they were doing so on a computer, I could show them how to do so automatically, had they doing so by phone, they'd have been up the creek. In 1981, a computer language was the only thing you got with your computer. By Windows 95, it was an application you had to dig deep to find. Now, people use computers (phones) with no access to their own filesystem and no ability to write their own programs day after day with no idea how much they've been robbed. Application designers are so starved for IO they've resorted to using the audio port for digital signals.

This is getting off-topic however. I agree that you should find the application you want and choose a platform it works on.

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

holidays

holidays(4)							   File Formats 						       holidays(4)

NAME

       holidays - prime/nonprime table for the accounting system

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/acct/holidays

DESCRIPTION

       The   /etc/acct/holidays file describes which hours are considered prime time and which days  are holidays.  Holidays and weekends are con-
       sidered non-prime time hours.  /etc/acct/holidays is used by the accounting system.

       All lines beginning with an "*" are comments.

       The  /etc/acct/holidays file consists of two sections.  The first non-comment line defines the current year and the start time of prime and
       non-prime time hours, in the form:

       current_year	 prime_start	  non_prime_start

       The remaining non-comment lines define the holidays in the  form:

       month/day     company_holiday

       Of these two fields, only the  month/day is actually used by  the accounting system programs.

       The  /etc/acct/holidays file must be updated each year.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Example of the /etc/acct/holidays file.

       The following is an example of the /etc/acct/holidays file:

       * Prime/Nonprime Table for the accounting system
       *
       * Curr	  Prime     Non-Prime
       * Year	  Start     Start
       *
	 1991	  0830	   1800
       *
       * only the first column (month/day) is significant.
       *
       * month/day    Company Holiday
       *
	 1/1	      New Years Day
	 5/30	      Memorial Day
	 7/4	      Indep. Day
	 9/5	      Labor Day
	 11/24	      Thanksgiving Day
	 11/25	      day after Thanksgiving
	 12/25	      Christmas
	 12/26	      day after Christmas

SEE ALSO

       acct(1M)

SunOS 5.10							    28 Mar 1991 						       holidays(4)