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The Lounge War Stories My Fifty Years Post 303017311 by jgt on Sunday 13th of May 2018 09:47:29 PM

05-13-2018

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My Fifty Years

So there I was in the summer of 1968, 24 years old, single, good job, two year old car with only four payments left, working in the purchasing department of a medium sized manufacturer and getting a free lunch every day with a sales rep. And then they put up an internal job posting for 'Systems Analyst Trainee'.
On Jan 6, 1969 I moved into my new office. My new boss came in with a stack of books, each one about 3 inches thick in heavy post binders.
The Canadian Income Tax Act.
The Federal Sales Tax Act.
The Ontario Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Quebec Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Accountants Reference Manual.
All I had to do for 6 months was read.
In June I talked to my boss about time shared computers, and in August we bought a Teletype ASR35 and arranged a time sharing contract. The minimum billing was about 70 dollars per month (perspective, my house phone was 8 dollars), and for that we had 4k of memory and concurrent access to 8 relative record files each with 100 records of 256 bytes each.
I wrote my first program.

Code:

for i = 1 to 10
print i
next i

Was I now ready for a real application?

To be continued...

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BB-REP.CGI(1)						      General Commands Manual						     BB-REP.CGI(1)

NAME

       bb-rep.cgi - CGI front-end to bbgen reporting

SYNOPSIS

       bb-rep.cgi [--noclean] [bbgen-options]

DESCRIPTION

       bb-rep.cgi  is  invoked	as  a CGI script via the bb-rep.sh CGI wrapper.  It triggers the generation of a Xymon availability report for the
       timeperiod specified by the CGI paramaters.

       bb-rep.cgi is passed a QUERY_STRING environment variable with the following parameters:

	  start-mon (Start month of the report)
	  start-day (Start day-of-month of the report)
	  start-yr  (Start year of the report)
	  end-mon   (End month of the report)
	  end-day   (End day-of-month of the report)
	  end-yr    (End year of the report)
	  style     (Report style)

       The following non-standard parameters are handled by the bbgen version of bb-rep.cgi:

	  suburl    (Page in report to go to, if not the top page)

       The "month" parameters must be specified as the three-letter english month name abbreviation: Jan, Feb, Mar ...

       Start- and end-days are in the range 1..31; the start- and end-year must be specified including century (e.g. "2003").

       End-times beyond the current time are silently replaced with the current time.

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       The "style" parameter is passed directly to bbgen(1) and should be "crit", "non-crit" or "all". Other values result in undefined behaviour.

       All of the processing involved in generating the report is done by invoking bbgen(1) with the proper "--reportopts" option.

OPTIONS

       --noclean
	      Do  not clean the BBREP directory of old reports. Makes the report-tool go a bit faster - instead, you can clean up the BBREP direc-
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       --env=FILENAME
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       bbgen-options
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FILES

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       $BBHOME/web/report_footer
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       $BBHOME/web/report_form
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       BBGENREPOPTS
	      bbgen options passed by default to the bb-rep.cgi. This happens in the bb-rep.sh wrapper.

       BBHOME Home directory of the Xymon server installation

       BBREP  Directory where generated reports are stored. This directory must be writable by the userid  executing  the  CGI	script,  typically
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       BBREPURL
	      The URL prefix to use when accessing the reports via a browser.  Default: $BBWEB/rep

SEE ALSO

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