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18 ANASOFT User’s Guide
Start Up
Extended start up sequence errors
ANASOFT reads in the status file STATUS.DAT which contains
information saved by ANASOFT the last time it was running. Several
errors can occur when reading this file.
Message Cause
Program
Action
Solution
Could not
find STA-
TUS.DAT
start up file The file could
not be found
on the data file
disk directory
set by
ANAINSTL.
The file may
have been
erased or cor-
rupted. ANASOFT contin-
ues with the start
up, but since there
is no power failure
information avail-
able, ANASOFT
assumes the Over
Power Failure
Recovery time
Limit action and
starts in that mode. As the program is running, the
STATUS.DAT file will be estab-
lished. Therefore, subsequent
starts should have no problem.
Invalid data
value on
STA-
TUS.DAT
start up file The file con-
tains some
invalid data,
and ANA-
SOFT assumes
that the file
was corrupted. Same as above. Same as above
Power Fail-
ure Recov-
ery
System
clock Error The current
system time/
date as saved
in the STA-
TUS.DAT file
were not in a
valid range.
The computer
system clock
is not set to
valid time and
date. Same as above. The automatic power failure
recovery feature of ANASOFT
requires a correct clock/calendar
system. While the computer boots
up, verify the following:
• There is a battery backed up
clock/calendar in the system.
• The battery is good.
• Time and date values are cor-
rectly loaded.