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2 total messages Started by Erik Sowa Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:08

#362

Author: Erik Sowa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:08

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I have uploaded my program USDebtWatch to
sonata.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/submissions. A description follows:

USDebtWatch
FreeWare Version 0.1 (92.07.23)

Algorithm:
USDebtWatch displays an estimate of the national debt of the United
States of America. The estimate is updated at a regular interval
specified by the user. Debt computation routines are taken from Jamie
Zawinski's xdebt. The debt estimate is derived from the 1989 Survey of
Current Business (SCB '89). It assumes a starting figure of
$2,707,284,000,000 as of December 31, 1988, with a linear rate of
increase of $7673.015 per second. Although the result looks horrifying
enough as is, it is certainly an obsolete underestimate. If you know of
a more recent and/or accurate algorithm for estimating the national
debt, please send me email. I used a FormCell, so it would be easy to
upgrade the program to simultaneously display the results of more than
one estimate.

Icon:

The icon is intended to depict Lady Liberty being crushed by the burden
of a heavy debt portfolio. I am not an artist; otherwise, I would have
done a better job.

NeXTSTEP Notes:

Interface by Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com). USDebtWatch is an old FORTRAN
hacker's first publicly-released NeXTSTEP program! Preferences are
stored in the defaults database.

--
Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
-- 
Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)

Re: USDebtWatch submitted to purdue archive

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Author: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:08

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sowa@netcom.com (Erik Sowa) writes:
> I have uploaded my program USDebtWatch to
> sonata.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/submissions. A description follows:
> 
> USDebtWatch
> FreeWare Version 0.1 (92.07.23)
> 
> Algorithm:
> USDebtWatch displays an estimate of the national debt of the United
> States of America. The estimate is updated at a regular interval
> specified by the user.
  [etc]

I've taken Erik's program, made a few changes to it, and uploaded it to the  
pub/next/submissions directory as:
-rw-r--r--  1 ftp        35906 Jul 24 19:42 USDebtWatch0.2.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 ftp         1509 Jul 24 19:43 USDebtWatch0.2.README

The main addition is a new preference item to save away the current location  
of the applications windows in the defaults database.  This means each user  
can have the windows pop up where he or she wants to see them.

I mention this because this is a feature I'd like to see other programs  
have.  Not all programs save away the location of windows, and the ones that  
do have different methods for doing that.  I personally like the idea of  
having an explicit preference option to do it, so I can say "Save them away  
as they are right now", and then not have to worry that the default values  
will change if I have to temporarily move one of those windows aside while  
running the program.

I uploaded this to sonata after exchanging a few messages with Eric.  Note  
that he intends to have a version 0.3 out sometime soon.  Send all messages  
about the program to him at:  sowa@netcom.com (Erik Sowa)

This is a nice little mini-example program, since the source is included.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

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