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Diskette To Printer Dump (RD)
WHAT THIS UTILITY DOES
HOW TO USE IT
This utility dumps the contents of a specified data file from the diskette on the printer.
Press the LOAD key. Mter the EXEC= message is printed at the operator station, enter
either RD or the starting sector address (ccchss) of the utility. When it is loaded, the
utility prints this message at the operator station:
RDOOOI DISKETTE TO PRINTER DUMP STARTED
The utility prints this prompt for the location of the data file information to be dumped
from the diskette:
RDt OOA DISK AREA=
Enter the requested information in this form:
ddd ,ccchss,ccchss
where:
ddd
ccchss,ccchss
the diskette device address in decimal
the starting and ending sector addresses
delimiting the location of the data fIle information to be dumped
from the diskette.
If there are no errors, the utility dumps the requested data file information on the
printer. You may stop the dump by causing an interrupt from the operator station. To do
this, hold down the CTRL key, then press the A key. This causes the dump to stop at the
end of a print line, print an abnormal recycle message, and reprompt for new input. Once
the dump operation is finished, a completion message is written at the operator station
and followed by a prompt for the next source data file information to be dumped. The
utility continues in this mode until you terminate it in some manner (for example, by
pressing the LOAD key).
THE OUTPUT YOU RECEIVE
This utility dumps the contents of a specified data fIle from the diskette on the printer.
The dump is in hexadecimal with columns of EBCDIC translation to the right of the page
and is formatted by sectors in the following manner:
ccchss xxxx xxxx<- - - - 12 words - - - ->xxxx xxxx yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxxx xxxx<- - - - 12 words - - - ->xxxx xxxx yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxxx xxxx<- - - - 12 words - - - ->xxxx xxxx yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxxx xxxx<---- 12words---->xxxx xxxx yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
where:
ccchss
xxxx
yyyy
the sector address of the data on the diskette
the contents of the diskette sector in hexadecimal
the contents of the diskette sector in EBCDIC
Copy, Dump and Patch Programs
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