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> After a thorough SOX compliance effort (which was ridiculous - one recommendation was "print out all source code and file it"),

If they found that rogue accountant it wasn't all that ridiculous after all. That one requirement was (probably, I don't know the context) ridiculous but the compliance effort apparently wasn't.

On another note, I have had a customer a while ago that would have been extremely happy if they had had a printed, filed copy of all their source code.



If your source code is your life, a printed backup in ocr font isn't that insane. $100 in printing costs? Cheaper than most long-term backup.


You would presumably be doing more traditional long-term backup anyway of course; it is not like you would be saving money on that.


Is there something like a paper version of "tar" that will print a directory of files in a format that can be scanned, preserving file structure etc?


http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/




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