A-Shell Setup Guide General Information Using This Document CHM Files A-Shell Doc Overview Available Docs Organization File Types Updates Locations Feedback Updates Introduction Data File Compatibility Program Compatibility A-Shell and MIAME Installation Before Installation File System Setup Installation Overview Security Key Updating Multiple Installations Development vs. Runtime Hardware and Performance Windows Installation File Locations Installation Problems Missing or invalid MIAME... Cannot INIT DSK0... Commands Will Not Execute Installing on a Network Novell/NetBIOS Machine Name Drive Mapping Windows Printers UNIX / Linux Installation File Ownership and Privileges Advanced Privilege Settings Setting Up UNIX Logins Modifying the User .Profile Backspace Key Operation Enabling the Use of KILL.LIT After Installation Modifying MIAME.INI Installing the Security Key Updating the License Licensing Issues LICENS Error Codes Transferring from AMOS Folding Filenames to Lower Case Selecting a Terminal Emulation Launching A-Shell Erasing Log Files Periodically Configuration MIAME Environment Variable A-Shell Configuration File Color Configuration Help Menu Links System Parameters SERIAL ALIAS CHARSET CONAME CONSOLE DEVICE EFSEXT ERSATZ Ersatz Definition Files FILES FKEYWAIT FLDATTR FONT IATIMEOUT IJCFREQ INCLUDE JOBPREFIX LANGUAGE LOGDIR LOKSER MALLOCLIMIT MAPIDA MAXINST MAXJOBS MAXLOCKS MEMORY MMAPLIST OPTIONS ABSLOOKUP AMOS_RUNSBR AS400 AUTO_MEMOPEN AUTOTPRINT BRKALC CRLF RC_DIMX EFFUSR EFS EXITWAIT EXTFIO FIELDEMU FPROUND GUI_SPC_IND HEXDEC ISAM_IDXLOK LATIN1 LONGDIR NOAUTOX NOAUTOXLT NOFLDATTR NOJOBMAP NOSPACEATTR NOXABORT NTTS RAWTABS SBX_RUNDIR SEQLOK STRICT TRKTOPSTS XABORT POLYKEY PRINTER QUEUE QUITKEY RUNDIR SBR AMOSJOB1 AXLOCK BSMID5 BUBBLESORT CCYY COMMONNDR EZPRTX INFLD_V1 INFDEF INFLD143 INFLDB3 INFLDCBRJ INFLDEDIT INFLDLDROP INFLD_KEEPALIVE INFLDPS LSTLINSTRIP MALLOCSORT MESAGRTN MSGNUM MSGSIZ MXLOCK PCKLST_GUI PRINTNOFF PRTCHK1 SUBMIT2 TRIMCTL TTI_PGRW XPPPNOCT SSD SWAPKEY SWAPWAIT TRACE Debug Message Window TRMDEF UMASK XONXOFF Printer Configuration Defining Spoolers Printer INI File Examples Init File Commands APEX AUTOFF AUTODLGOK AUXPCDIR BANNER BIN CHARSET COMMAND Host Processing A-Shell Processing CPP CRLF, CRNL DATATYPE DELETE DEVICE DEVICE = AUXLOC: Set Printer Mode Using Printer Name DEVICE = PROMPT: DEVICE = DISK: DUPLEX FONT FONTHEIGHT, FONTWIDTH FORMFEED HEADER LMARGIN , TMARGIN LPP NOABORTDLG ORIENTATION OVERLAY PAPERSIZE PASSTHROUGH PITCH PREFIX, SUFFIX PREVIEW PRTCOPIES STRIPFF WEIGHT XOFFSET, YOFFSET XORIGIN, YORIGIN Troubleshooting Techniques Supported Printer Interfaces EZ-SPOOL EZ-SPOOL Config Files EZ-SPOOL Sample Config File EZ-SPOOL Commands EXTOPT SWITCHES Send File to Printer or Queue A-Shell/Windows A-Shell/UNIX Launching A-Shell ASHELL Command Line Switches Buffer Name Buffer and Snapshot Overwrite Buffer File Change Directory CGI Device Name Exit Alternate Icon Ignore Hangup Hangup Delay Hangup Error Immediately hetcki Hangup Parent Specify INI File Jobname Maximize Minimize Remove Menu Buttons No Menu Settings File Quiet Mode Memory Standalone Background Task Terminal Driver trace Override User Name Version Invisible Invisible with Icon Child Session Command Line File Virtual Command Files Initial Window Settings Launch Background Process on Boot Update A-Shell While Running Other Executables ASHCE ASHLITE COMPIL, OCMPIL, COMPLP PRE/OPRE PSHELL PolyShell Command Line Switches Define executable Read command line arguments Display help message Auto-launch first instance Auto-launch first two instances Define base job name Validate terminal type Reverse Poly and Swap Keys Limit to one child VUE Using A-Shell Menus File Menu Edit Menu AutoMouse Copy and Paste Settings Menu Scheduling Beveling Colors Font Misc Settings External Font Leading Background Fill Color Proportional Font Scaling Minimum Margin When Maximized Use Fixed Pitch in Edit Boxes Force Standard Colors in Edit Boxes Set Active Background Color Allow Edit Boxes to Use Leading Space Force Edit Boxes to Match Combo Height Dialog Sizing Dialog Grid Units Font Scaling % Grid Unit % Adjustment Include Caption in Dialog Height Help Menu Mouse Operations Print-to-Email Print Preview Windows Print Preview Color Customization Interfacing to the Outside World IP Lookup Email Web Pages SQL / ODBC CSV (Comma Separated Values) Screen Pictures Function Key Programming Standard IFX Translations Input Line Editing Line Editing Commands APEX Updates Introduction Licensing Preferences Preview on Print On Exit from Preview Preview Window State Preview File Retention Keystrokes and Mouse Clicks Operations Zoom Percentage and Zoom In/Out Find Text Export to Excel Print As Application Intended Open another report file Technical Reference Init File Debugging Settings Files and Folders Troubleshooting Export to Excel Crashing Old Versions of Windows Error Messages A-Shell ?-node license already in use A-Shell out of memory A-Shell partition too small for file buffers Access Denied BIOS computer name required for ?-node network license Cannot create instance Cannot open A-Shell queue system Compiler reports an absurd number of syntax errors Compiler reports many errors; how do I stop display? Cannot open company name file Configuration file not found Control-S and Control-Q do not work (to stop scrolling) Disk is full; what can I erase? Ersatz definition file not found Ersatz device specification is not formatted properly Form feed problems (too many or too few) while printing File specification error Illegal command in MIAME.INI Incompatible version of qflock; remove after all users exit Infinite loop corruption in A-Shell queue system Language definition file not found License does not match operating system version JOBTBL Full! (Increase MAXJOBS setting in miame.ini.) Msg #,# (sys:<filename>) Operating in demonstration mode Out of memory Out of queue blocks Printer not defined to workstation Printing problems under Linux Print spooling with PREFIX, SUFFIX or AUTOFF doesn't work Security key is invalid Specified job name <job> already exists Stack Overflow This update of A-Shell not covered under your license Too many sessions originating from same source address! Unable to initialize ODBC environment Warning: instance already exists for [??????] - over-writing Warning: maximum no. aliases exceeded Warning: maximum no. ERSATZes exceeded Warning: nested include statements not permitted Warning: standalone mode for network license disables locking Windows printer [ptrname] not defined to this workstation Window instance exceeds the limit defined in your config file Write protected error (BASIC Error 24) Your job queue has been zapped; exit A-Shell now Appendix Boolean Arguments in INI Files Updated Reviewed Added