snoooorrrrrr, c'mon de, do you really expect people to READ the manual. You must have been super mega bored, like stuck in a hospital bored, or baby sitting the kids at home for a weekend while the wife is out of town bored, or, in another country bored.
I remember as a kid, getting a new Atari 2600 game one Christmas, it was River Raid. My dad played the game while he insisted I read the manual, I just sat there with the manual in my lap while he was blasting up river.
Just out of curiosity, what useful bit of info did you read in the manual, (I've never read it but I will :dribble: )
Oh, and I forgot, I had lunch with Abdy J. yesterday at PF Changs, mmmm, Crispy Honey Shrimp and Mongolian Beef. when you make it into town we'll have to plan a meet-up!!!
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Oh, and I forgot, I had lunch with Abdy J. yesterday at PF Changs, mmmm, Crispy Honey Shrimp and Mongolian Beef. when you make it into town we'll have to plan a meet-up!!!
Lunch and Beer is on me guys! Oh and Yes PF Changs was good. I had the Mongolian Beef.
If I'm not mistaken all of the conference info will be available right here on PDMSWORLD after the conference. A copy of all presentations will be here for viewing. I think that is pretty cool.
[QUOTE=de_ding]I am tweaking global today, copying some DB across a slow network, so instead of snoring, I just glanced through the specon manual.
Must have been a REALLY slow allocation if you really started to read the manual.
I usually do everything backwards, I start from the code to figure out how it all works :p
I am tring to create spec manually, but everytime I type in 'heading' on command line, i got an error message? can somebody tell me why?
Although it is possible to create your spec "manually", I'm sure most people would advise against typing each line into the command line. I found this in the Specon manual:
NEW SPECIFICATION /RF300
MATREF =0
FLUREF =0
RATING 0.000
LINETYPE NUL
HEADING
TYPE NAME PBOR0 SHOP CATREF DETAIL MATXT CMPREF BLTREF
- - - =
TUBE */20TU 20.0 TRUE /TUEE /DTUB1 /MTUB =0 =0
TUBE */25TU 25.0 TRUE /TUFF /DTUB1 /MTUB =0 =0
...
HEADING
TYPE NAME PBOR0 STYP SHOP CATREF DETAIL MATXT CMPREF BLTREF
- - - PE =
FTUB */20FT 20.0 PE TRUE /FTEE /DFTUB /MFTUB =0 =0
FTUB */25FT 25.0 PE TRUE /FTFF /DFTUB /MFTUB =0 =0
You need to put your information(see above example) into a text file and then use the syntax
$m c:\temp\mySpec.txt
to create the spec.
You obviously need to learn how to output an existing spec in either old or new format. New format creates a new spec and old format modifies an existing spec, although it is possible to mix the two. If you already have a spec, you would use
OLD SPECIFICATION /RF300
For a new spec:
NEW SPECIFICATION /RF300
When you get to the heading, new format shows TYPE and then NAME as in the example above. Think of the syntax:
NEW SPCO /RF300-ELBO-6"
Notice how you state the element type and then the name.
If you are modifying a selector, the NAME column comes before the TYPE column.
You can search the Specon manual for "Outputting a Specification" to get some info on what to type to get a file to start from, assuming that you have an existing spec that you can "copy" and then modify.
