Xerox FreeFlow manual Summary of Record command parameters, Record Adjust

Specifying input parameters

In the previous example, these codes were added to the standard IBM1403 carriage control code table: X’40’ (Space 1 Line And Print), X’F1’ (Skip to Channel 1 And Print), and X’F8’ (Print And Skip to Channel 8).

RECORD command

Specifies the structure of the print record. (For online printing, only the LENGTH parameter of this command is used. For offline printing, the RECORD command has several additional parameters that define the record structure.)

Record command parameters

The following table summarizes the RECORD command parameters.

Table 2-37. Summary of RECORD command parameters

Parameter	Specifies	Offline	Online	DJDE
ADJUST	Record length adjust value	Y	N	N
CONSTANT	Record termination code	Y	N	N
RECORD	Length field recording mode	Y	N	N
FORMAT
LENGTH	Maximum logical record length	Y	Y	N
LMULT	Multiplication factor to determine record length	Y	N	N
LTHFLD	Length of field containing record length	Y	N	N
OFFSET	Location of record length field	Y	N	N
POSTAMBLE	Length of extraneous data at end of record	Y	N	N
STRUCTURE	Input record structure	Y	N	N

RECORD ADJUST

Specifies an adjustment value that is added to or subtracted from the contents of the record length field to determine the true record length.

Syntax RECORD ADJUST = value

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