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General Information About Online Viewing

There are many benefits associated with the change from paper-based reports to online viewing of information. Most new applications written are based largely around the online access of information with fewer paper-based reports produced than in the past. However, we still have to handle these reports and the substantial numbers of reports produced from older applications.

When applications were written in the past it was not foreseen that the expansion of the applications would put a terminal on most desks. Despite improvements in technology, reports still arrive late, sometimes unreadable, sometimes lost and in a cumbersome format. With Control-D, our aim is to make paper-based reports as obsolete as punch cards and paper tape are now.

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Phase 9: Online Viewing Implementation