Advertising Company halts bill printing
back in my local government days, we used to print out Business Rates bills etc.
Suddenly, one batch of printing would just stop after printing MORE O
more o "what"?
Turns out it was a bill to More O'Fearal advertising/hoardings company - and that was the problem.
After scanning the VME LIST_RECORDS output for the print file, I eventually learned that the rates junior had updated the customer name from
More O'Fearal to More O`Fearal
Did you spot the difference?
they had used 'grave' apostrophe rather than apostrophe , which the ICL Line Printer (upper case only) had interpreted as HALT.
took days to find that one. :-(
Biting the hand that feeds IT
