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PICK operator guide 88A00757 A06 ZEBRABVGA RECORD OF REVISIONS Title: PICK Operator Guide Document No. 88A00757A06 ---------+--------------------------------------------Date Revision Record Apr 83 Original Issue Sep 83 Revision B - (Covering ZEBRA/PICK 2.0) Apr 84 Revision A03 Oct 84 Revision A04 Feb 85 Revision A05 - Change Package (85A00514A01) Apr 85 Revision A06 - Change Package (85A00520A01) THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION WHICH SHALL NOT BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSFERRED TO OTHER DOCUMENTS OR DISCLOSED TO OTHERS OR USED FOR MANUFACTURING OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSIOO OF GENERAL AUTOMATION, INC. ii PICK operator guide 88A00757 A06 CopyrightO by General Automltion.lnc. 1045 South Ellt Street P.O. Box 4883 Anlheim. CaliforniI92803 (714)778-4800 (800)854-6234 TWX 910-591.1695 TELEX 685·513 RECORD OF REVISIONS Title: PICK Operator Guide Document No. 88A00757A06 I 1---------+--------------------------------------1 Date I Revision Record 1 Apr 83 Original Issue Sep 83 Revision B - (Covering ZEBRA/PICK 2.0) Apr 84 Revision A03 Oct 84 Revision A04 Feb 85 Revision A05 - Change Package (85AOO514A01) Apr 85 Revision A06 - Change Package (85AOO520A01) THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION WHICH SHALL NOT BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSFERRED TO OTHER DOCUMENTS OR DISCLOSED TO OTHERS OR USED FOR MANUFACTURING OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF GENERAL AUTOMATION, INC. ii 88A00757A FOREWORD This manual provides operator guidance in the use of the General Automation ZEBRA/PICK operating system. It is intended for user persons responsible for standard day-to-day operations; and for user persons who must carry out the more specialized system operator functions. In today's computer environment. both of these may be in the hands of one person. The major subjects arranged in that way are as follows: Section 1 - Introduction Section 2 - System Startup Section 3 - Terminal Control Language Section 4 - System File Management Section 5 System Memory Management Section 6 - Dictionaries and Files Section 7 Support Processors Appendix A - ERRMSG (Error Messages) Appendix B - ASCII Codes Appendix C - ZEBRA Series Firmware Executives Appendix D - Tape Operation Appendix E - System-Cursor Definition Utility iii 88A00757A Related ZEBRA/PICK documents that are available to the user: Document No. Title 88A0075lA Overview of the PICK Operating System 88A00758A ACCD-PLOT Operator Guide 88A00759A COMPU-SImET Operator Guide 88A00760A Quick Guide for the PICK Operating System 88A00774A PICK Utilities Guide 88A00775A ZEBRA Hardware Reference Manual 88A00776A PICK ACCESS Reference Manual 88A00777 A PICK SPOOLER Reference Manual 88A00778A PICK BASIC Reference Manual 88A00779A PICK EDITOR Reference Manual 88A00780A PICK PROC Reference Uanual 88A0078lA PICK RUNOFF Reference Manual 88A00782A Introduction to PICK TCL and FILE STRUCTURE 88A00783A PICK JET Word Processor Guide TMACCU-PLOT is a trademark of ACCUSOFT Enterprises TMCOMPU-SHEET is a trademark of Raymond-Wayne Corporation TMpICK is a trademark of PICK Systems, Inc. TMZEBRA is a trademark of General Automation, Inc. iv 88A00757A TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Title 1 INTRODUCTION • • • • • • 1-1 1.1 SYSTEM STRUCTURE • . 1-1 1.2" DICTIONARIES/FILES • · . · . · . 1-2 1.2.1 SYsrEK DICTIONARY (SYSTEM) . 1-2 1.2.2 USER MASTER DICTIONARIES (MD). · . 1-3 1.2.3 PILE LEVEL DICTIONARIES. • • • • • . 1-3 1.2.4 DAtA PILES ••••••• · . · . 1-3 1.3 FILE STRUCTURES •• . 1-4 1.3.1 FRAKES ••• · · . 1-4 1.3.2 MODULO AND SEPARAtION. 1-5 1.4 ITEM-ID AND AtTRIBUTES • · . 1-9 1.4.1 ItEM-ID •••••••• 1-9 1.4.2 ATTllIBUTES • • • • • • 1-11 1.4.2.1 Dictionary Attributes 1-11 1.4.2.2 Data Attributes • • • • 1-12 2 SYSTEM StARTUP • • • • • 2-1 2 .1 TUllNING ZEBRA ON • • • • . 2-1 2.1.1 ZEBRA 1500, 2500, 3500, 5500 ·•••••••• . 2-1 2.1.1.1 PICK Operating System Load •••• 2-1 2.1.2 ZEBRA 750. • • • • • • • • • • • • • 2-3 2.1.2.1 PICX Operating Systea Load • 2-3 2.1.2.2 -PICK OS RESTORE ••••••• 2-5 2.1.2.3 Binary Backup and RESTORE. 2-6 2.1.2.4 BOOT ••••••• 2-6 2.1.2.5 Cartridge and Hard Disk Format Procedure 2-7 2.2 LOGGING OPERAtION •••••• 2-8 2.2.1 LOGON. • • 2-8 2.2.2 LOGOFF • • • • • • • • • • • 2-9 2.2.3 ADDITIONAL LOGON FUNCTIONS • • 2-10 2.2.3.1 LOGTO ••• 2-10 2.2.3.2 CHARGE-TO. 2-11 2.2.3.3 CHARGES. • • • • 2-11 2.2.4 THE LOGON PROC AND GENERAL SYSTEM MESSAGES • 2-13 2.2.5 POWERP'AIL AND GENERAL SYSTEM MESSAGE •••• 2-14 3 TERMINAL CONTROL LANGUAGE (TCL). · . 3-1 3.1 TCL VERB TYPES ••••••• . 3-1 3.2 TCL VERB ATTRIBUTES •• 3-2 3.3 TCL VERB LIST. • • • • • 3-4 3.4 VERB DEFINITION FOR MD · . 3-9 3.5 TCL VERB STA'rEMEN'r • • . ... 3-10 3.5.1 TYPE-I STATEMENTS •• 3-10 3.5.2 TYPE-II STA'rEMEN'rS • · . 3-10 v 88A00757A Section Title 3.6 TERMINAL/PRINTER CONTROLS ••••••••• 3-11 3.6.1 KEYBOARD CONTROLS ••••••••• 3-11 3.6.2 SETTING TERMINAL/PRINTER CONTROLS. 3-12 3.6.2.1 SET-TERM ••••••••••• 3-14 3.6.2.2 Cr~ng1ng Baud Rate (SET-BAUD) 3-15 3.6.3 SETTING TAB STOPS •••••••• . 3-15 3.6.4 ENABLE/DISENABLE CHARACTER ECHO. 3-16 3.6.4.1 The ECHO Verb 3-16 3.6.5 BLOCK PRINTING •••• 3-17 3.6.5.1 Block-Print. 3-17 3.6.6 GENERAL SERVICE VERBS. 3-18 3.6.6.1 TIME •••• 3-18 3.6.6.2 WHO ••• 3-19 3 • 6 • 6 • 3 SLEEP. • • • • • • 3-20 3.6.6.4 MESSAGES. • • • • •••• 3-21 3.7 TAPE OPERATION AND CARTRIDGE DISK: SET-1/2 (OR SET-MT), SET-1/4 (OR SET-CT), AND SET-CD •••••• 3-22 3.7.1 SETTING TAPE SIZE •••••••••••••• 3-22 3.7.1.1 Attaching Cartridge Disk •••••• 3-22 3.7.2 FULLY UTILIZING 1/4" TAPE BY LOCATING EOF'S: T-EOF, T-EOFD •••••••• 3-23 3.8 PROGRAM INTERRUPTION: DEBUG FACILITY • 3-24 4 SYSTEM FILE MANAGEMENT • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 4-1 4.1 CREATING NEW FILES: CREATE-FILE AND CREATE-PFILE • 4-3 4.2 CLEARING FILES ••• 4-5 4.2.1 CLEAR-FILE. 4-5 4.2.2 DELETE-FILE. 4-6 4.3 COPYING FILE DATA. • • 4-7 4.3.1 COPY PROCESSOR. 4-7 4.3.2 COpy OPTIONS • 4-8 4.3.3 FILE-TO-FILE COpy •••• 4-10 4.3.3.1 Copy to Another Account • 4-10 4.4 RESTORING FILE DATA. • • • • • • • • • • • • • 4-12 4.4.1 SELECTIVE RESTORES: SEL-RESTORE ••••• 4-12 4.4.2 GROUP FORMAT ERROR ••••••• 4-15 4.4.2.1 Transient Format Error. 4-15 4.4.2.2 Real Format Error ••••••• 4-16 4.4.2.3 Recovery from Group-Error. 4-16 4.4.2.4 Preventing Group Format Error • 4-16 4.5 SYSTEM FILE BACKUP • • • • • • • • • • • • 4-17 4.5.1 FILE-SAVE PROC •••••••••••• 4-17 4.5.1.1 Customizing the FILE-SAVE PROC: CREATE-FILE-SAVE. • • • • • • • • 4-19 4.5.1.2 Customizing the FILE-SAVE PROC: NEW-FILE-SAVE • • • • • • • • • • • 4-19 vi 88A00757A Section Title 4.5.2 ACCOUNT-SAVE AND ACCOUNT-RESTORE • . 4-20 4.5.2.1 ACCOUNT-SAVE PROC ••• 4-20 4.5.2.2 ACCOUNT-RESTORE •••• 4-21 4.5.2.3 Multi-Reel Tape Operation. 4-21 5 SYSTEM MEMORY MANAGEMENT • • • . 5-1 5.1 MEMORY STRUCTURE •••••• 5-1 5.1.1 ADDED WORK SPACE. 5-4 5.1.2 THE FILE AREA ••• . 5-5 5.1.3 FRAME FORMATS ••• 5-7 5.1.3.1 Frame Format Display: DUMP 5-8 5.1.3.2 Frame Lock in Memory: LOCK-FRAME, UNLOCK-FRAME ••••••••• 5-9 5.1.4 DISPLAY OF SYSTEM STATUS: WHAT, WHERE 5-10 5.1.4.1 The WHAT, WHERE Message. 5-11 5.1.5 LOADING AND USING SYSTEM SPACE. 5-13 5.1.5.1 POVF ••••••• 5-13 5.2 SYSTEM DICTIONARY AND SYSTEM FILE. • • 5-14 5.2.1 USER IDENTIFICATION ITEMS. • • •• 5-14 5.2.2 SYSTEM FILE AND SYSTEM-LEVEL FILES • 5-16 5.2.2.1 Accounting History File. 5-16 5.2.2.2 Block Convert File. • • 5-17 5.2.2.3 PROetIB File. • • • • ••• 5-17 5.2.2.4 SYSTEM-ERRORS File. • •••• 5-17 5.3 SYSTEM-LEVEL FILES • • • • • • • • • •• 5-18 5.3.1 ACCOUNTING HISTORY FILE ••• 5-18 5.3.1.1 Active User Items • 5-18 5.3.1.2 Accounting History Items. • •••• 5-19 5.3.1.3 Accounting History Pile Summary ••••• 5-20 5.3.1.4 Accounting History File Clearance • 5-22 5.3.2 BLOCK-CONVERT FILE • 5-23 5.3.3 PROetIB FILE • • •• '. 5-24 5.4 ACCOUNT FILE MAINTENANCE ••• . 5-25 5.4.1 CREATE-ACCOUNT PROC. 5-25 5.4.2 DELETE-ACCOUNT PROC. 5-25 5.4.3 POINTER-FILES. 5-26 5.5 BASIC PROGRAM FILE • . 5-27 5.6 SYSTEM MESSAGES FILE • . 5-28 5.6.1 ERRMSG FILE. • • ••••• 5-28 5.6.1.1 Special ERRMSG File Items. 5-29 5.6.2 PRINT-ERR VERB • • • • • • • . 5-30 vii 88A00757A Section Title 6 DICtIONARIES AND FILES • 6-1 6.1 FILE ACCESS •••• 6-1 6.2 THE DICtIONARIES • 6-3 6.2.1 THE SHARING OF DICTIONARIES •• 6-5 6 .3 FILE STRUCTURE • • • • • • • • • • • • 6-7 6.3.1 BASE, MODULO AND SEPARATION. 6-7 6.3.2 SELECTING MODULO AND SEPARATION. 6-9 6.4 ITEM SnUCTUaE • • • • • . 6-11 6.4.1 PHYSICAL ••••••••••• 6-11 6.4.2 LOGICAL.............. 6-13 6.5 ITEM STORAGE AND THE BASHING ALGORITHM •• 6-15 6.6 FILE ITEM SnUCTUBE. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 6-16 6.6.1 FILE DEFINITION ITEMS (D) ••••• 6-18 6.6.2 FILE SYNONtK DEFINITION ITEMS (Q).