Actual Work
In addition to all of the things I’m dealing with concerning my Mother, and an annoying complaint by the town that must be pandered to, I have actually been doing some maintenance of a program that I wrote three decades ago.
This program has been chugging along in MS-DOS 3.1 through Windows XP and took a hit from the latest iteration of the HP LaserJet. They made a minor change to the driver that scrambled the printer output.
It took a while to figure out what they had done, because it wasn’t technically a real change, but the strict enforcement of some program standards. What they did was in a passing comment in an HP programming manual, so I finally tried it, and the program is again pumping out paper.
It’s always nice to be useful.
May 21, 2014 2 Comments
