The purpose of the program is to provide an automated method to convert System 1022 datasets to System 1032. Optionally, it will also dump each dataset's data to a DMI file. Page 2 Attribute names, abbreviations, key status, and ranges are copied. One main difference is that 1022 chooses the width of each occurrence of each attribute according to its individual value, but 1032 does so for the attribute itself based only on its range and precision. Prompts are generated by replacing underscores with spaces and capitalizing the first letter of each word.
Titles are the same as prompts except that lines are broken where appropriate.
This is not strictly necessary, but it is advisable because the user has to be more knowledgeable to handle those with longer names. DMI file names are truncated to 6 characters for compatibility with old TOPS-10. Unique names are generated if these truncations result in several datasets or DMI files having the same name. Page 3 2. Dates dumped with a length of 6 or 7 are now specified as Format 5 so that they will be read correctly by 1032.