Download Pertec software manual - Electrovalue Technologies Inc

Table of Contents
NOTES AND WARRANTY NOTICE ..........................................................6
MAILING LISTS ......................................................................................8
THE 1950’S ............................................................................................8
THE 1960’S ............................................................................................8
THE 1970’S ............................................................................................8
THE 1980’S ............................................................................................8
THE 1990’S ............................................................................................8
THE YEAR 2000 - TODAY ......................................................................8
HARDWARE INSTALLATION..........................................................9
PLACING PERIPHERALS ON THE DRIVE .................................................9
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ...........................................................9
CONFIGURING THE SOFTWARE ..........................................................11
THE TACO PROGRAM .....................................................................11
SETTING THE I/O PORT . ......................................................................11
SETTING THE DRIVE ID NUMBER. .......................................................11
USING TACO: .....................................................................................11
TESTING THE SOFTWARE ....................................................................12
PROBLEM RESOLUTION .......................................................................12
JUMPER SETTINGS ON THE CONTROLLER CARD .................................13
CLEANING THE HEADS AND THE TAPE PATH .....................14
CLEANING SCHEDULE .........................................................................14
9 TRACK DRIVE CLEANING PROCEDURE .............................................15
CARTRIDGE DRIVE CLEANING PROCEDURE .......................................15
SHORT PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS ............................................16
LOG TO LINE PRINTER ......................................................................... 28
TAPE TO SCREEN AND TAPE TO PRINTER ........................................... 30
TESTING AN FXED CONTROL FILE ...................................................... 30
BLOCK POSITIONING ........................................................................... 30
CTRL-Z ................................................................................................ 31
TAPE TO DBASE .DBF DISK FILES .................................................... 32
CHANGING FIELD LENGTHS: ............................................................... 34
CHANGING THE ORDER OF FIELDS : .................................................... 34
DISCARDING UNWANTED FIELDS : ...................................................... 34
DBASE NUMERIC , DATE AND LOGICAL DATA TYPES: ...................... 34
INDEX FILES ASSOCIATED WITH A .DBF FILE:................................... 34
TAPE TO .DBF ERROR & WARNING MESSAGES ................................... 34
BATCH MODE -RECORDING AND PLAYBACK OF FX USER INPUT: ..... 36
TAPE TO PRINTER MODE ..................................................................... 36
THE FXED PROGRAM ..................................................................... 37
MACROS .............................................................................................. 42
OUTPUT DEFINITION PHASE-FORWARD INSERTIONS ......................... 50
OUTPUT DEFINITION PHASE – DISCUSSION & EXAMPLES ................. 52
THE CONDITIONAL PROCESSING DEFINITION PHASE ......................... 53
TAKING THE CONDITIONAL EXPRESSION FROM A DISK FILE ............ 56
THE SECONDARY TRANSLATION DEFINITION PHASE ......................... 58
CONVERTING ALL CONTROL CHARACTERS TO SPACES ..................... 59
GENERATE A .DBF FILE ....................................................................... 60
.DBF FILE GENERATION...................................................................... 61
THE KEYS PROGRAM ..................................................................... 70
A SUMMARY OF KEYS COMMANDS .................................................... 70
OVERVIEW OF KEYS OPERATION ........................................................ 71
THE CUBS PROGRAM ..................................................................... 79
QUICK START & OVERVIEW........................................................16
FROM TAPE TO PC ...............................................................................16
WRITING DATA TO TAPE. ....................................................................17
RUNNING THIS SOFTWARE UNDER WINDOWS 95/98 .........17
THE FX PROGRAM ...........................................................................19
BLOCK SIZE ON TAPE ...........................................................................19
ANSWERING QUESTIONS .....................................................................19
TAPE POSITIONING ..............................................................................20
RESETING 8TH BIT ...............................................................................20
USING AN FXED CONTROL FILE ........................................................20
CHANGE ALL CONTROL CHARACTERS TO SPACES .............................20
CHANGE ALL CR'S AND/OR LF'S INTO THE CR-LF PAIR ? ................20
CONVERT EBCDIC TO ASCII ? .........................................................21
ADD CR & LF AFTER HOW MANY CHARACTERS? .............................21
BLOCK SIZE LIMITS WHEN "CR & LF" OPTIONS ARE IN EFFECT:......21
TRANSFER OF MULTIPLE TAPE FILES TO DISK ....................................21
TRANSFER OF LARGE TAPE FILES TO DISK .........................................22
APPENDING TAPE DATA TO AN EXISTING DISK FILE ..........................23
TRANSFER OF BINARY FILES TO DISK .................................................24
TAPE READ ERROR HANDLING ............................................................24
READING TAPE WITHOUT AN FXED CONTROL FILE ..........................24
DIALOGUE WHEN WRITING TO TAPE ..................................................25
NOTES ABOUT APPENDING ..................................................................26
PADDING LAST BLOCK WITH SPACE CHARACTERS ............................26
SHORT LAST BLOCK.............................................................................27
ASCII -TO-EBCDIC CONVERSION .....................................................27
MULTIPLE FILE TRANSFER ..................................................................27
TRUNCATION & EXPANSION ...............................................................27
A MODE ............................................................................................... 80
E MODE ................................................................................................ 81
L MODE ................................................................................................ 81
W MODE ............................................................................................... 82
R MODE ................................................................................................ 83
B MODE ................................................................................................ 83
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS ................................................................... 83
RUN-TIME COMMANDS ....................................................................... 85
THE DITTO PROGRAM ................................................................... 86
HOW TO RUN DITTO ............................................................................ 86
THE D2T PROGRAM......................................................................... 90
PACKED DECIMAL AND ZONED DECIMAL NUMERIC FIELDS .............. 96
WRITING MULTIPLE FILES TO TAPE .................................................... 97
DEALING WITH MYSTERY TAPES............................................. 99
WHICH TAPE FILE IS THE DATA IN? .................................................... 99
HOW MANY BYTES IN A TAPE FILE? .................................................100
FINDING THE LOGICAL RECORD LENGTH .........................................100
THE LRL PROGRAM ..........................................................................100
FIGURING OUT THE FIELD DEFINITIONS ...........................................103
WRONG DENSITY?.............................................................................103
WHAT CODE (EBCDIC, PACKED OR ZONED DECIMAL) ? ..............104
BASIC INFORMATION: TAPE DATA FORMATS .................106
FILEMARKS ........................................................................................108
LABELED TAPES ................................................................................108
REFLECTIVE MARKERS: ....................................................................108