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Date:         Thu, 7 May 2009 20:24:34 -0700
Reply-To:     Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
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From:         Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
Subject:      Database designer?
Comments: cc: joel walker <uncajoel@bellsouth.net>
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So I found that with the new hardware, archive searches actually work. I entered a one word search term and searched the entire archive. Took about twenty seconds to return results. Then I perused the results...

Search term? "statz" What did I find? The last weakly statz was ten years ago! <http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9901B&L=vanagon&P=R14565>

Now over the years I've periodically prodded Joel to resume publication but he has repeatedly told me that the university retired the mainframe ton which he compiled them then they retired he who did the compiling. Joel doesn't speak modern database language nor do I. He speaks something called REXX which is what he apparently used to write the program that he used to generate our fondly remembered "Weakly Statz."

So.... Is there anyone on-list that has a background that would lend itself to coming up with a new method of rendering Joel's lovingly collected data into a report form that could be published again? He's not stopped collecting it. He just had to stop publishing it.

We need some help here! Can someone come up with something that we can just pour Joel's data into?

Please contact Joel and/or me with your ideas.

TIA,

Jim


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