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*30 October 1975	Bureaucracy: Computer time usage	LES

To find out how much computer time has been  used by any given group,
say
.R BUREAUCRACY		(actually, just "R BUREAU" will do).
The program will ask for  dates, PPN lists, and output form.   If you
give  null   responses  (CR)  to  all   requests,  the  program  will
automatically show a summary of computer utilization by  project from
the beginning of the current year through yesterday.

Data covered include number of PPNs, number of logins, job hours, CPU
minutes, core  K minutes, and "Doubloons"  (an approximate measure of
overall cost on  an arbitrary scale).   The entries  are in order  of
decreasing doubloons, except that "All others" is always last.

			DATES

Alternatively, you can  "roll your own".   The raw data is  stored by
PPN for each month over the past year and for each year back to 1971.
When it asks  for dates,  you can say something like "Jul:Oct", which
may or may not work.  If  the current date is December, this gives
you data  for the  current year.   If the current  date is  May, last
year's data is used.  If you say that in July, August,  or September,
it will simply complain.  It doesn't hurt to ask.

If you say just "May" then you get data for the last instance of that
month only.   If you say  ":May" you get data  from 1 January through
May.  If you say 72 or  1972, you get data for that entire year.   If
You mention the  current year, or if you just  hit <carriage return>,
you get year-to-date data.

			PPNs

When the program asks for PPNs, you can say something like:

Bureaucrats:JMC,LES,TW; Bad guys:REG,[SPL,SYS]; Classes: [206],[225]
which will gather data on three groups, separated by ";". Labels (one
or more  words ending in ":") may appear  anywhere in the group list.
If you omit labels,  the groups will be  named "Group 1", "Group  2",
etc.

More generally, the following elements may appear in PPN lists:

group label:pn,[pj],[pj,pn],[*,pn],[pj,*],@file,@@,/SUMMARY

Nothing need be capitalized.  [pj] is of course equivalent  to [pj,*]
and pn means [*,pn].  If a given PPN qualifies for membership in more
than one group, then [pj,pn]  takes precedence over [pj,*], which  in
turn outranks [*,pn].  If you  mention exactly the same thing in more
than  one group the  program will grumble, but  will ignore conflicts
and continue.

Now about the "@file" gizmo: This lets  you compose a horrendous list
as a  text file and gobble it into the middle  of the line.  The file
name may contain a PPN.  Any TV/E directory or SOS line  numbers will
be ignored.   While the on-line  response is restricted to  one line,
the  text file may  contain many  lines.  It  will be read  as if the
carriage returns don't exist. You can go indirect any number of times
and  any  number  of  levels,  though  string  space  may  freak  out
eventually.

The "@@"  form says "go read  the telephone list".   This will assign
everyone to  groups on the basis of project affiliations given in our
telephone directory.   Individuals who are  in more than one  project
are  arbitrarily pushed into  the first  one on  their list.   People
without a listed project are dumped into "Miscellaneous".  Of course,
this  still  leaves a  few  "outlaws"  who  are  not on  any  of  our
authorized  user lists.   You can precede  the "@@" with  one or more
group  lists of  your  own,  which  will  take  precedence  over  the
directory groupings.

			OUTPUT

After the  data  is generated,  the program  repeatedly  asks for  an
output specification of one of the following kinds:
 <blank>		type a summary
 *			type detailed listing
 S			spool a summary
 S*			spool details
 <file>			save summary in file
 <file>*		save details in file.
 .			loop back to respecify PPNs and dates.

On reruns, the null reply to PPN and  Date questions means "just like
last time".  Thus,  you can easily ask for data from a different time
period with the same  cast of characters, or  for the same time  with
another group.