REFSPEC displays menu screens in a predetermined sequence.
As each menu is displayed, enter the reformatting specifications
you want in the reformat file, and then press ENTER. When ENTER is pressed, the specifications are written to the reformat
file and the next menu in the sequence is issued. If you do not
want to enter any specifications (on a menu such as the Globals
Menu where defaults are supplied), simply press NEXT to display the next menu.
When the reformatting is completely defined, request the Main
Menu by pressing MAIN/RESUME. You can then compile the reformat file so that it can
be executed.
The REFSPEC menu screens are shown in Figure 5-9 “Relation of REFSPEC Menus to Function
Keys” in
the order they are issued. First the Reformat File Menu requests
the name of the reformat file. For a new reformat file, the next
menu asks for the name of the forms file whose data is to be reformatted.
For an existing reformat file, the Forms File Menu is skipped and
the Main Menu displayed.
You can move forwards or backwards through the sequence of
menus to locate a particular menu by pressing NEXT or PREV, respectively. You can skip an entire reformat specification by
pressing NEXT REFORMAT or PREV REFORMAT. (A reformat consists of an input forms sequence and its
associated output record definition.) These keys allow you to go
directly to the next or previous Input Forms Menu. An alternate
method is to request the Main Menu by pressing MAIN/RESUME and then selecting a particular menu.
Press EXIT to return to MPE control from REFSPEC.
Figure 5-9 “Relation of REFSPEC Menus to Function
Keys” illustrates the relationship between
the menu definitions presented on the REFSPEC menu screens and some
of the special function keys.
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number of reformat fields defined in the preceding Output Record
Menu. One Output Record Menu is issued for each Input Forms Menu.
You may be able to specify reformatting with as few as one Input
Forms Menu, or you may need as many as there are forms in the forms
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Figure 5-9 Relation of REFSPEC Menus to Function
Keys
