A Systems Analysis of Water Quality Survey Design. Appendix VIII. Documentation Data Handling System Programmer's Manual.
Abstract
A Data Handling System is described which handles on-site water quality survey data measured by the Army. A sequence of programs is often executed to complete a given data handling operation. OS/8 BATCH is used to automate the specification of this sequence of operation via a BATCH input file. OS/8 BATCH provides users of the system with a batch processing monitor that is integrated into the OS/8 Monitor structure. Several system tables are used by the system software to define a particular data handling application to the system. The system definition file (SYSDEF.AR) provides information which includes lists of valid ID tags, upper and lower limits for measurement values, data formats, and various heading and column information used during report generation. The translation table file (TRNTBL.AR) contains the translation tables for the mark sense cards. The method file (METHOD.AR) specifies for each parameter the particular data conversion algorithm within the function file (FNCTN.AR) to use on input. The data files and information files are OS/8 BASIC numeric files while all other files are OS/8 ASCII files. The ID information within these numeric files are 6-bit positive integers. OS/8 BASIC user functions are provided to pack and unpack these 6-bit integers within a 36-bit floating point variable. In addition, OS/8 BASIC user functions are provided for formatted output, interization, and PDM-70 input. The chapters within this manual include a discussion of the implementation of the data handling programs, file formats, mark card design, and industry compatible type formats.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA036530
Entities
People
- Thomas L. Drake
Organizations
- Clemson University