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Document:	General Addendum and Comments for DEC Rainbow Users
Order Number:	AD-W563A-TV
Revision:	0
Pages:	8
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DENDUM
(c) CamSoft 82 CMS 2. ADDENL

DEC Order No.

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Page

General addendum and comments for DEC RAINBOW users.

Please note the following general changes and comments

Section 2.12 field 3, downward position should be 0 not 60.
At the end of page 2.9, insert "Exit BACKUP, return to the main menu

In proaessing there is now an cption to view r:ds 'Mfm:e processing them.

The following concern the letter writer:=

6.9 There is an extra command that allows you to justify text on the

‘screen, the command (via the escape key) is V.

Stopping the automatic justification of text requires an up arrow mly,
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not, as the manual says, N followed by up arrow.

If you want text indented, or spaces left in a paragraph, then type i
. left arrows. The left arrow will be displayed on the screen as a normal
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v
character but will not be printed.
spaces.
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Appendix 7, page 7:1. AAd the following paragraph.
It is worth noting that these codes are only signals to DMS to move the
cursor in the specified direction. It is not necessary to define the
codes used by your terminal to effect these functions. i.e. If your

terminal requires the code sequence escape<A> to move the cursor up,
DMS will still accept the single code “E (or any other in the range

When the cursor control codes are received by DMS, the cursor movement
is performed by using the direct cursor addressing sequence for your

‘terminal. Thus the cursor can be controlled by single keystrokes
regardless of the sequence required by the terminal.

VERIEY

There is a program supplied with DMS called VERIFY. This program checks
the validity of a DMS file and updates the record count and the index.
It is not part of the DMS menu and should ke run straight from C2/M or
'MSDCS. Copy VERIFY onto your DMS mar:er disk and run it by typing
VERIFY. You will then be asked for the drive and the name of the file
to be verified.

This program will also check a file for disk errors. It is quite fast
and, if you are having disk problems, should be run prior to back ups.

BROWSE and MASK

Under the BROWSE and MASK (Sections 8 and 3, input data) optieons,
of the "Kay Field.”
it is not possible to amend the contents

Page 2 of 7

The DMS backup optionshould only be used for aitumtimw where a DMS
‘file m t:m vm
fit on 1 diskette. This norma fy occurs when using

' thm:, a file o fm ooy utility.
———

EVER CHANGE DISKE'I”TES,

UNLESS

PROMPTED TO BY BMB, OR

LEAVING DMS.

'TRY AND CHANGE ANY DMS FILES OUTSIDE OF DMS.
' RENAME DMS FILES, UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOUfiVGW’WKhT YOU ARE DOING.

KEEP REGULAR BACKUPS OF YOUR DATA.

t CMS 2. ADDENDUM
(c) CamSof82

VS - LINK/COPY additional information
Introduction

“This document is nat to m used in place of the manual. It deals with some

- of the most common problems that users encounter when trying to use the LINK
and COPY cptims,. As far as we know there are no bugs in LINK or COPY, sO
‘read the mml aml then this Mditimal information sheet.

There aremmgmralmtes, twammplesandwmethmgstodo ifymhava
problems.
,Smn
facts amut me

- 1. LINK is like the standard mport except that the output goes tca a
“sequential” fileon disk.

2. mudomtmadmmtputallthefmldsfrmafile
‘3. You can output the fields in any order.
4. DMS will allocate an extension name of MRG to the ocutput file of a
- LINK run. e.g. if you supplied a name of JOBOUT the file will actually
be called JOBCUT.MRG.

5. You can sort and select prior to doing a link. However if the output

of the LINK is to go into a COFY you do not need to sort first.

6. Most wordprocessors will read a LINKed file, remember to tell the
wordprocessor to use the correct file name.

Scme facts about COFY
1. COFY is like using KEY, except that the input comes from a disk.
2. The input file must have a name with an extension of .MRG.
3. You do not need to reference all the fields on either the input file

or the IMS file.

4. Field numbers start at 1 on the input flle. So, even if the first

field on the input file was not £ield number 1 on the LINKed DMS file
it will be called field 1 in COFY.
5. When QOFY finds that a record exists on rthe DMS file, it will UTDATE
it. You can replace character and date fields , or add/subtract/replace
numeric fields.

6. When COPY can’t find a matching record on the DMS f:x.le, it will

CREATE one.
7. You must have a field on the input file to match agamst the key
field cn the IMS file.

The confusion in some peoples mind about when files are input or cutput
files stems from one misconcepticn. A file is a file, it is neither an input
file nor an output file until a program reads it or writes it, in much the

same way a cheque is neither a credit nor a debit until it is paid cut of cr

into an account.
Therefore the MRG file that LINK prcduces is an cutput file from LINK,
an input file to COPY.

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