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I have one.
First thing to check is the power supply, on tech this vintage the electrolytic filter capacitors are the first things to go: they will either open circuit or short out, neither is good for the electrons in there.
If the power supply passes the test then things get a bit more interesting - more symptoms on "not functioning" will be needed 
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We have a command line app we run to import data from "foreign" databases. Each foreign database provides its own web service. We import the data in one of four databases, depending on what environment we're in, but we can redirect the imported data into and of the four databases by a command line switch.
We use the database to determine how the app runs via a table of configuration settings. There are also arbitrary command line switches that let you change some (but not all) of the values, however not all of the command line switches are handled through the appconfig object (even though they might override a value retrieved from the database.
I'm almost done with a re-write of that section of code that:
0) Pulls config settings from the database (as before), but only for the specified program type (foreign database source)
1) Allows ANY of those values to be overridden, because I use reflection to get the appconfig object's property names, as well as a generic SetValue method.
2) Produces a program type-specific help screen (if the command line args are something like "/progtype /?"), or an app help screen that describes all possible arguments (again, using reflection for the property names and their default database values
It's pretty impressive, if I do say so myself.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Except it was supposed to be a Flappy Bird clone, John - your boss.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sounds good.
I write a lot of command-line utilities, some including some stuff similar to that.
However, I _never_ use appconfig. Some do use a custom XML file designed for them.
Your point 2 reminds me of VOS. 
I haven't advanced my command line parser to that point though. Even many features of OpenVMS haven't been added yet.
One of the more recent features I added to the parser is the ability to set environment variables to hold commonly-used switches.
For instance, my TFSutil expects a /URL switch (which rarely changes), so
set TFSutil/URL=theURLoftheteamTFSproject
and the command line parser treats it as if it was included on the command line. Slick as snot.
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And of course you wrote all this in Qlikview.
Runs away in a zig zag pattern, hoping he misses.
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It's always cool when you get a chance to work on something and feel like you've done a clever job of it.
I got to do that last year for the first time in ages. We were making an "evaluation kit" to show off some new hardware to potential partners, and I was charged with producing the app to run the thing. I could have cannibalized an existing app, but it would have been a chainsaw job and would have looked like it. Instead I rolled up a new app from scratch. Not only did the new app look good, I got it done before the hardware was ready, which almost never happens.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough?
What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That depends. Does this treatment halt, or reverse, physical and mental decline? Or do we get to look forward to 900 years of senility, arthritis, and getting up ten times a night to pee?
(Although I supposed getting up ten times a night is better than not getting up.  )
Also, how much does it cost? If you're still paying off the cost of treatment as a quincentenarian, then it doesn't sound like a good deal. Even worse if you have to regularly repeat the treatment.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Meh, if I live that long, I would've figured out how to replace parts of my body with synthetics anyway, save the brain off course.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Although I supposed getting up ten times a night is better than not getting up
10 times? After 3, I'd be looking into leaving a garden hose nearby.
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On a slight deviation:
Not that long ago I considered if I could be twenty or thirty, again, as in a boon of youth. Without my Mrs. to be with me, continuing to grow old together, I wasn't so sure I'd take it.
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Well, that would imply some replacement at some point of time. 
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No.
Let me die quickly when I cannot enjoy life anymore.
I'd rather be phishing!
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If I can retain my physical health and my mental health then I would live for at least a thousand years. There's so much to learn and see...
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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...yet there still won't be enough time to meet deadlines.
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I don't think about dying. It is the last thing I want to do.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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"I am not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen, if my memory is correct.
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Well, I would sit back and watch the humanity go on destroying itself until it is not amusing anymore.
So about ten years from now.
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Rage wrote: So about ten years months from now.
FTFY.
(yes, it's Demoralized Friday Doldrums in my neck of the woods)
Software Zen: delete this;
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It already stopped being amusing.
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Nope, I'm ok with leaving shortly after retirement, say 75 or so.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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No I would not want to live forever, without death there is no life!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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