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By then, SELFREG was old, and one of only two text-only programs that Williams students at large were using (the other is the email program [[PINE]], and its popularity has decreased greatly as well). Most importantly from the point of view of the [[Office of for Information Technology]] and [[Registrar]], there was no longer any tech support for the aged SELFREG, so continuing to use SELFREG was an act of faith in something that no one really knew how to fix anymore. In recent history, SELFREG had never failed, but it was nevertheless decided that the switch to PeopleSoft would be the wisest course.

<table><td>[[Image:SELFREG.jpg|left]]The DROP/ADD screen on old SELFREG, as viewed on a Mac OS 8.6. This student has encountered the rare problem of having dropped and added so many classes, that he has used all 15 of the lines given for input, and has received the error message at the top of the window.</td></table>

Because no one can use SELFREG anymore, no matter how much we want to take that stroll along the white-on-black Unix memory lane, this section is mainly here for nostalgia. Unfortunately, the [http://www.williams.edu/registrar/ Registrar's homepage] is updated more diligently than many other departments', and all the documentation for old SELFREG seems to have been removed, though the acronym remains. The fact that the site is the top [http://www.google.com/search?q=SELFREG Google hit for SELFREG] gives a clue as to how much later Williams was than peer users in abandoning the old program.