Sorry Jim, but my forte was Cobol and Pascal.  Two more dinosaurs.

GregM

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Arnott
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:25 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Database designer?

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