Posted on 07/05/2007 9:30:29 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I just started on a project that does this very thing. We organize and maintain the data from closed federal facilities. The paper is warehoused or scanned. Electronic data is mostly stored in Oracle and another product by Hummingbird. There are lots of old obscure & archaic formats and databases that make this problematic though. Everything is assigned a retention date. For legal reasons some of the data must be stored perpetually. Its a big problem.
No, with some of the legacy systems I support, it's plain vanilla telnet
You're having a bad day when "cat" or "echo" are your editors!
On Windows I've gotten used to TextPad (www.textpad.com) which is quite decent.
Textpad is one of the better editors for Winders. I was glad it had a "brief" mode, but it didn't have the macro language that was Brief's real power. Textpad is one of the few shareware programs that I thought was good enough to pay for. I'm still pissed at Borland for buying Brief, then abandoning it. If it were available for Linux, I'd pay for it.
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