[Info-vax] x86-64 VMS: One piece of software no-one has asked for yet

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-08-30, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-08-30, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Output which is part of a regulatory filing is being massaged by hand? 
>> What do the auditors think of that?
>>
>
> That was _exactly_ what I thought when I read that.
>
> I don't know what the rules are like in the US, but here in the UK,
> I would expect the auditor to raise a major red flag if there wasn't
> an audit trail back to the rules (in the form of source code) which
> were used to generate the figures.
>
>> The program with the lost source really needs recreating so that it's
>> auditable.
>
> TECO has absolutely no place in this workflow and I _strongly_ agree
> with you.

I think someone else pointed out that TECO can be used in batch mode, and
this is how I used to use it to massage RUNOFF output files.  There's
nothing wrong with that, subject to being documented in the right place, but
I didn't get the impression it was being used this way in the given example.

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