PRT2SAVE: convert screen dumps to EZFORMAT files

Description

Converts a print file of a screen into an EZFORMAT source file. Can be used to recover "lost" EZFORMAT source.

Categories

Program Development
System Operation

Related files

PRT2SAVE: Object file or BASIC source for program.

User Instructions

Accepts the name of a screen dump print file and converts the screen information into EZFORMAT format. Primarily used to create EZFORMAT screen images from existing programs.

At the INPUT screen, enter the name and location of the screen dump print file. Next, the program prompts for the name and location of the output file. The program ends after converting the screen portions of the print file into a 1920-byte EZFORMAT screen file.

Programmer Instructions

Both of the screens in PRT2SAVE are GETPARMs, so it can be run under program control.

INPUT       Enter information and press (RETURN) to continue.

  FILE      (blank)     The name and location of the print
  LIBRARY   [spoolib]   file to be used as input.  Must be
  VOLUME    [spoolvol]  created using the screen print option
                        from the command process or
                        equivalent.

OUTPUT      Enter information and press (RETURN) to continue.

  FILE      (blank)     The name and location of the EZFORMAT
  LIBRARY   [uid]+SAVE  screen file to be created.  Default
  VOLUME    [outvol]    library consists of user ID + 'SAVE'.

  RECORDS   (blank)     The number of output records to be
                        created.

BASIC source is available.

Example of use

Best used to recover EZFORMAT menus where the SAVE files have been lost. For example, if program source has been lost for a menu, run the program and create a screen dump, then convert the image to EZFORMAT source and use the MENU option to create a new menu. (Note that the key assignments will not be captured; only the image of the screen.)

Another use might be to use an existing program screen as a starting point for a new program screen by capturing the image and converting it to COBOL source with EZFORMAT.

Comments

Creates an accurate EZFORMAT file, but ignores overstrikes (a carriage return with no line feed) such as those used for underlines or bold printing. Assumes that the MENU option of EZFORMAT is in use; therefore, text fields are not surrounded by double quotes.