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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:05:58 PDT
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- From: "Kathleen Matthews" <LSYS1@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
- Subject: Re: 5.1 OPAC CHANGES (SCREEN)
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:43:19 EST from <ALANAM@PURCCVM>
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- Alan:(or anyone else) Why can't a program be written to read each screen set,
- counting the number of lines and bump the "trespassing lines " on to the
- next screen and just shift lines along for each set of screens, creating an
- extra screen for each set as necessary? Perhaps a little crude, as screens
- should be "composed/designed" on a screen by screen basis for user readability
- but with this approach we could "revise" screens after implementation rather
- that have the pressure of this being a prerequisite to implementation.
- On Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:43:19 EST Alan Alexander-Manifold said:
- >We have modified the screens provided from NOTIS quite substantially, and
- >are facing a very quick deadline for putting 5.1 in production. I have
- >written a set of four SAS programs to help us with this conversion. One
- >program extracts the OPAC screen data from the 5.0.2 LCRFILE and puts it
- >into an ASCII file, with each screen marked and separated by some coded
- >header and footer lines. A second program takes the ASCII file and puts
- >it back into 5.0.2 LCRFILE record format, ready to be REPRO REPLACEd back into
- >the LCRFILE. The third and fourth programs do the same for a set of 1.2.1 MDAS
- >screens from the SCRFILE. In the JCL, you specify the database name in
- >an input file, and the screens are extracted. You the do the same in
- >reverse to create 1.2.1 SCRFILE type records ready to REPRO REPLACE in your
- >SCRFILE.
- >
- >This may not seem like much help, but the point is what you do with the
- >file while it is in ASCII format. You can edit the file on your mainframe,
- >with any editor you have available, or, if you can download or ftp the
- >file to your PC or some other machine, you can pop it into your favorite word
- >processor to move text, delete and insert lines, even create new screens
- >if you can figure out the header information. You can then upload the
- >file back to your system and run the reverse program to take your newly
- >formatted screens and put them back in the LCRFILE or SCRFILE.
- >
- >I am willing to make these programs available, either through NOTISPRO
- >or by direct request to those that are willing to take them at their own
- >risk. NOTIS is not fond of people manipulating the system control files
- >in this manner, and will be ready to lay the blame on these programs if
- >you later encounter problems with your LCRFILE or SCRFILE. The programs
- >are not an ideal solution anyway, but it beats calling each screen up
- >with LSYS or MSYS and editing without a real editor.
- >
- >Please respond directly to me if you would be interested in obtaining
- >these programs. I'll gauge from the response how I should make them
- >available.
- > \
- > --Alan Alexander-Manifold THe Online Resource
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