I am one of those old time programmers of assembly language back in the dark ages of computers. Wish I had gone into web design as I love to design & get things working in a creative environment rather than a military communication evironment.

When all else fails, take it one step at a time & see what happens. Seems like that envorinment is a little easier to do that in rather than like the communication's systems....we worked in units, but huge units had to come together for debugging process. We could drive signals through the hardware to test small areas of the program, but it was a major process when the whole thing was a military communication shelter that had to work together without crashing planes.

Best wishes.....I know how frustrating it can be.....maybe you can figure out a way to get hold of that program that makes development easier.....sometimes reducing stress is worth the money if at all possible.

Good luck
Debbie