Xerox 96MX - Manual (Page 297)

USING LOGICAL PROCESSING
XEROX DOCUPRINT 96/DOCUPRINT 96MX LPS PDL REFERENCE 7-17
Points to note
Table 7-13 shows the effect of the TCOUNT and HCOUNT
parameters of the BANNER command under the conditions listed
and the results of each.
Examples
This section shows examples of using the BANNER command.
Example 1
The following commands define the BANNER criteria for a job stream
with two trailer pages and one header page. A character string of 120
asterisks beginning in print position one of line 66 occurs on header
and trailer pages.
T1: TABLE CONSTANT=(120)’*’;
C1: CRITERIA CONSTANT=(0,120,EQ,T1),
LINENUM=(66,1);
BANNER TEST=C1, HCOUNT=1, TCOUNT=2,
HJOBNO=(121,6);
Example 2
If a job stream has two trailer pages with the character string
DATE=mm/dd/yy appearing on line 10 or 11 and beginning in print
position 20, the BANNER criteria could be coded as follows:
T2: TABLE CONSTANT=(’DATE=::/::/::’), MASK=(’:’);
C2: CRITERIA CONSTANT=(19,13,EQ,T2),
LINENUM=(10,2);
BANNER TEST=C2, HCOUNT=0, TCOUNT=2;
The MASK parameter specifies a masking character. The
CONSTANT parameter specifies both the constant data being
compared and the character positions which contain variable data
which are not being compared. In this example, positions 1 through
5 (DATE=) as well as positions 8 and 11 (the /’s) of the specified
character string contain fixed data. Positions 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, and 13,
which are identified by the mask character (:), contain variable data
and are not compared. Header page count has been set to zero
because criteria defining header pages have not been specified.
Table 7-13.Summary of BANNER command parameter conditions and results
Condition Parameter Result
LPS positions to TOF after end-of-
report processing If TCOUNT = 0
If TCOUNT not 0
The page after the first header is positioned at TOF.
The page after the last trailer is positioned at TOF.
Running online with header pages
only as the offset criteria TCOUNT = 0 Job parameters such as DJDEs and page numbering
for a given report are applied to the first header page of
the following report.
The system encounters a non-banner
page TCOUNT = 0 The next banner page is treated as the first header of a
new report, even if HCOUNT is not satisfied.
The system encounters a non-banner
page before HCOUNT is satisfied HCOUNT not 0
and
TCOUNT not 0 LPS assumes that the report has fewer header pages
than were specified and begins looking for trailer pages.