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Tony Knowles sent me the part of his CICAT.PUB.SYS file, dealing CIERR and
STORE error messages. I transferred it to he HP as CICATERR.PUB.SYS.

1. The CICATERR file was 25000 records long. I tried to upload it by
MiniSoft92 for Windows using
compression. The result was an ureadable file.

2. I tried to upload it by Minisoft92 for Windows without compression,
with timeout 115. After uploading 100%, the Minisoft92 deleted the file.
Why? (I was not standing by the computer. An OK window was waiting on the
screen. Mnisoft92 sent a PURGE command.)

3. I uploaded the file with Advance Link.

4. The original CICAT.PUB.SYS is more than 20000 lines long. I could not
merge the two files with HPEDIT. It cannot handle more than 32000 lines.

5. I merged the two fileds with a Pascal program, then renamed the
results.

6. The HELP command gave an error message that the file is not labelled.

7. I printed out the file labels of the original CICAT. There are many of
them serving as and index of explained keywords.

8. I found in the MPEV Intrinsics and the Native Language Support mauals
that the MAKECAT.PUB.SYS program creates a labelled file from a flat help
file. (The flat help file contains \KEYWORDS before the explanation texts
and its last record is \ALL.)
:FILE INPUT=flat_help_file
:RUN CICAT.PUB.SYS,HELP

9. When I used the meged flat help file, MAKECAT terminated with ERROR 12.
Probably it cannot handle too long files, similarly to the HPEDIT.

10. I made an auxiliary help file from Tony's mail.
:FILE INPUT=CIERRCAT.PUB.SYS
:RUN CICAT.PUB.SYS,HELP
:RENAME HELPCAT,CIERRCAT

11. I found in the above manuals that the input of the ordinary help can
be redirected.
:FILE CICAT.PUB.SYS=CIERRCAT.PUB.SYS
:HELP
>CIERR900
...Response...
>CIERR999
...Response...
>EXIT
You must reset the file equation to obtain again ordinary help.
:RESET CICAT.PUB.SYS
:HELP
>SHOWJOB

12. I demonstrated step 12 to the women. Everybody was :-))

Many thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Tony!

                                             Frank

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