FSALEN.HLP USER INSTRUCTIONS FOR FINDING THE LENGTH OF FSA FILES ******************************************************************************** WRITTEN BY: SHERMAN TODD, DOUGLAS BOHRER PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT, THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO 1 FIRST NATIONAL PLAZA, 22ND FLOOR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60670 DATE: 24-APRIL-81 ******************************************************************************** This is the user's guide for the FSALEN program. This guide gives step-by-step instructions and useful hints for operating FSALEN. The format 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 FASLEN program from monitor mode, the user would simply type: RUN FSALEN The system prompts will appear in all capital letters, while comments will appear in the lower case form: 1. INPUT FILE NAME? This requests the name of the fortran sequential ascii(fsa) input file whose length the user wishes to determine. 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 the input file. Therefore, a system error will occur if a bad specification is detected. 2. INPUT RECORD LENGTH? This requests the maximum number of characters any record in the file is expected to have. Any record size entry from 1 to 512 will be excepted by FSALEN. Record size entries above 512, however, will result in an error. 3. OUTPUT FILE NAME? This requests the name of the output file that will contain the value for the number of records in the input file.