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exSCO app now prints to PDF

The easiest way to do that turned out to be writing HTML, then feeding that to a converter. The downside is that a 48-page report works out to be 700kB of HTML, which htmldoc chokes on & silently dies. So... a bit of re-engineering now to start a new temp text file (shut down & restart <html> & <body> tags in between), spawn htmldoc with a bunch of them instead of one file with throwing a <!-- PAGE BREAK --> directive in at the end of each page. Extra victory: I have one report spitting contents into a <table> tag. It looks much neater & more elegant.
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I am your Commander!

Varth Dader Earlly Nilliterate Make mine a Penne Arabiata So the shirt would read, but for a lack of fabric paints. I’ll be attending a sci-fi themed birthday party for a nephew tonight. (The meal reference is from the Lego parody of the Death Star Canteen)
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Minor victory in ex-SCO application

47,300 lines of C (plus 6,800 lines of headers) should not take a full day of effort to get to compile, yet compile it does... & even seems to work. The few sections I tested on my laptop (running Mandriva Linux 2009.1 rather than SCO Unix 5.0.7) behaved flawlessly. Now if the rest proves to be working, we’re poised to actually change a few things, to the immense relief of their staff. Driving a terminal ( any terminal other than strict VT-100B at 24x80 (or x132) would be good) via ncurses rather than from hand-coded printfs to “\33[%d;%dH” would be fantastic. Then we could axe the proprietary terminal program they’re forced to use under MS-Windows (was even Windows98 in one case until the day before yesterday). Printing (eventually via PDFs &) CUPS will mean that they can use the hp laser (which does only wordprocessing now) for reports & documents like reminders (A5 sized) & invoices. This replaces a dodgy, ageing impact printer (again, hand-coded with “\33w0” &
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