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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
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On 5/7/2009 8:24 PM Jim Arnott wrote:

> 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
>