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.
2 comments
Until it has you up at 11PM doing work because there’s a deadline (a doubling of the customer base, meaning more money) that has to be met…
With the time difference between California and the Florida Panhandle, and the fact that this is a small business out there, 11PM CST is not all that unusual when there is an issue to be resolved.