MATCHB.HLP USER INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILE COMPARISON ******************************************************************************** WRITTEN BY: SHERMAN TODD, DOUGLAS BOHRER PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT, THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO 1 FIRST NATIONAL PLAZA, 22ND FLOOR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60670 DATE: 5-MAR-81 ******************************************************************************** This is the user's guide for the MATCHB program. This guide gives step-by-step instructions and useful hints for operating MATCHB. The format is 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 MATCHB program from monitor mode, the user would simply type: RUN MATCHB The system prompts will appear in all capital letters, while comments will be in lower case: 1. ENTER NAME OF FIRST INPUT FILE This requests the name of one of the in put files. 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. RECORD SIZE? This requests the maximum number of characters any record in the file is expected to have. Any record size from 1 to 51 will be accepted by MATCHB. Record sizes above 51, however, will result in an error. 3. STARTING POSITION OF KEY? This requests the character position of the first character in the key of each record in the file. 4. ERROR MESSAGE FOR NO MATCH FOR 1ST FILE RECORDS ON OTHER FILE? This requests the user to enter an error message stating that a record from the 1st file was read that does not contain a matching record on the 2nd file. The error message and the record in error are both written to the Error Output File. 5. ENTER THE NAME OF THE SECOND INPUT FILE This requests the name of the other input file to be compared in MATCHB. The rules that apply to the entry for the first input file also apply this entry. matchb.hlp--page 2-- 6. RECORD SIZE? This requests the maximum number of characters any record in the second input file is expected to have. This size must be a number from 1 to 51. 7. STARTING POSTION OF KEY? This requests the character postion of the first character in the key each record on the file. 8. ERROR MESSAGE FOR NO MATCH FOR 2ND FILE RECORDS ON OTHER FILE? This requests the user to enter an error message to indicate that a record from the 2nd file was read that does not contain a matching record on the 1st input file. 9. LENGTH OF KEY? This requests the user to enter the exact number of characters the key for each record is composed of. 10. ENTER NAME OF OUTPUT FILE FOR MATCHED RECORDS This requests the user to enter the name that he/she has decided to call the Output File. 11. ENTER NAME OF THE ERROR OUTPUT FILE This requests the user to enter the name that he/she has decided to call the Error Output File.