> PS Is the only specification for HDS sitting in hardcopy only on Brian's
> desk? Is there any chance at all that a RAL secretary could type it up in
> electronic form? I don't know about you guys but I get nervous when all
> our software relies on an undocumented format.
I spoke to Monica Kendall last week. She said she still had an old Vax
running with Starlink software, so I did raise the question of grabbing
some old documents, particularly the HDS Internals Manual. It's
sufficiently old that SSN/27 might still be on HDS not staradmin.
\begin{rant}
It was a big mistake to reuse document numbers. Besides
not losing old stuff, confusion over citations, filing, we'd know how
many documents we'd written. The last point is surprising knowing
Mike's love of statistics and record keeping.
\end{rant}
Monica is in hospital but I'll pursue this upon her return.
Malcolm
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