Mapper.hlp User instructions for mapping FSA files ******************************************************************************** WRITTEN BY: Sherman Todd, Douglas Bohrer Personnel Department, The First National Bank of Chicago 1 First National Plaza, 22nd floor Chicago, Illinois 60670 DATE: 14-SEP-81 ******************************************************************************** This is the user's guide for the mapper program. This guide gives step-by-step instructions and useful hints for operating Mapper. The format is to print, in the order in which they might appear, the system prompts to the user and then list what the responses might mean. To start an installed mapper program from monitor mode, the user would simply type: RUN MAPPER The system prompts will appear in all capital letters, while comments will be in lower case: 1. INPUT FILE? this requests the name of the input file to be used by mapper. simply type out the name of the file in the form: dev:filename.ext. the syntax is checked by the system as it tries to open a file. Therefore, a system error will occur if a bad specification is made. 2. INPUT RECORD LENGTH? this requests the number of characters all records in the input file are expected to have. any record size from 1 to 512 will be accepted by mapper. 3. OUTPUT FILE? this requests the name of the output file to be created by mapper. simply type out the name of the file in the form: dev:filename.ext. 4. OUTPUT FIELDS? this requests the user to enter the record fields to be extracted from the input file by mapper. these fields should be entered in the following format: s,l:s,l:s,l:... (where s=start column in the input file,l=length)