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The Institutes here have been on an electronic time sheet program (called TRAX) for about a year now. One of the computer people here produced this (name deleted to protect the guilty).

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NAME 
     rantrax - timesheet preparation with random numbers 

SYNOPSIS 
     rantrax [ options ] ...  [ username ] ... 

DESCRIPTION 
     _r_a_n_t_r_a_x allows the invoker to prepare a Trax 
     timesheet for the user(s) specified in the command  
     line.  If no users are specified, they are taken  
     from the TIMESHEET environment variable.   
     Options are as follows: 

     -A   anal option (identical to -c) 

     -a   anxious option (average work times are more than the  
          required number of hours; see also -c and -h) 

     -B   brown nose option (like -a only more so) 

     -c   compulsive option (total number of hours is EXACTLY equal 
          to the required number of hours; see also -a and -h) 

     -C<name> 
          timesheet in the style of <name>, where <name> 
          must be a famous scientist in /usr/lib/rantrax/models 
          (default is -v, vanilla option) 

     -d<file> 
          timesheet(s) prepared for all dates in <file> (default is 
          this week) 

     -f   French option (default is taken from the ~/trax/profile 
          file; if no file exists, the default is English) 

     -G   Gaussian distribution option (default is Poisson distribution) 

     -h   hostile option (average work times are less than the  
          required number of hours; see also -a and -c) 

     -n   numbers only option (no finished box is produced) 

     -L   Lorentzian distribution option (available to physicists only) 

     -N<number> 
          mean number of hours in timesheet (default is 37.5; this 
          option is ignored when options -a -B -c -h or -W are used) 

     -p<file> 
          projects are taken from <file> (if -p is not used, projects 
          are taken from ~/trax/profile; if this file does not exist, 
          only C30 and 601 are used) 

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     -P   pretty option (style is taken from ~/trax/profile; if this file 
          does not exist, style 1 is used from /usr/lib/rantrax/pretty; 
          -P cannot be used together with -W) 

     -U   uniform distribution option (default is Poisson distribution) 

     -v   vanilla option (default; output is a bland timesheet that 
          will not attract attention) 

     -W   workaholic option (available at M-58 sites only) 

ENVIRONMENT 
     TIMESHEET 
          is a list of default employees which will be used if 
          none are specified in the command line.  If any are 
          specified, the values in TIMESHEET are ignored. 

FILES 
     /usr/lib/rantrax/gov      treasury board guide for timesheets 

     /usr/lib/rantrax/random   details on random number generators and 
                               on probability distributions used 

     /usr/lib/rantrax/models   timesheets of famous scientists 

     /usr/lib/rantrax/pretty   how to turn your timesheet into a work of art 

     /usr/lib/rantrax/screw    guide for clogging the system 

BUGS 
     None reported (Who reads this stuff, let alone looks for bugs?) 
     /usr/lib/rantrax/gov is VERY large; ftp with caution 

MAN AUTHOR 
     Author prefers to be anonymous. 

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