Gasboy SCII POS - Manual (Page 34)

Point of Sale and Shift Change Report file formats 27
03/07/03 Gasboy CFN Series
LISTDAY.CMD Executed in background, waits for day to close.
LISTNEXT.CMD Executed in background to generate shift reports.
LISTONE.CMD Executed in background to generate end-of-day reports.
MEMORYF.CMD Backs up trans - usually a memory full cron.
NEWCLERK.CMD (no longer used)
NEXTDAY.CMD End the Day command file.
NEXTSHFT.CMD End the Shift command file.
PRHOUR.CMD Print hour report generator.
PRITEM.CMD Print item report generator.
PRNTDROP.CMD Executed in background to print safedrop slip.
PRNTRPT.CMD Executed in background to print reports wen completed.
REPORT.CMD Regenerate report command file.
REPRINT.CMD Reprint report command file.
SAFEDROP.CMD Record safe drop command file.
SETUP.CMD Setup configuration utility.
VARIABLE.CMD Display shift by console system variables.
DAY.CON End-of-day report configuration file.
SHIFT.CON Shift report configuration file.
CLERK.CON Clerk report configuration file.
VERSION.VAR Version of the standard reporting package.
Format files
Format files are text files produced by the Alter utility and stored on the Site Controller in the
P:BIN directory. The file extension for format files is .FMT.
Format files are read by the reporting package when generating reports. There is a format file for
each of the reports:
• DAY.FMT is used to format the end-of-day report, and
• SHIFT.FMT is used to format the shift report.
• CLERK.FMT is used to format the clerk report.
Log files
Log files are both read and created by the reporting package.
• JOURNAL.LOG is read by the reporting package to produce shift reports for the current day.
• Each time a report is generated, processing information is recorded in ERROR.LOG.
JOURNAL.LOG and ERROR.LOG are stored in the root directory.
When the day on the Site Controller is ended:
• The JOURNAL.LOG file is renamed PREVIOUS.LOG and an end-of-day report is produced.
• The PREVIOUS.LOG file is moved to the P:REPORTS directory.
• Prior to moving PREVIOUS.LOG to the REPORTS directory, the existing PREVIOUS.LOG
file in the REPORTS directory is renamed PREVIOUS.#, where # is a number ranging from 1
to %n, where %n is set using SETUP. The default value of %n is 10. Hence, in addition to the
current day’s transactions, up to n+1 days of transactions are maintained on the Site Controller
in the P:REPORTS directory.
Each time a final safe drop is made to the previous day (after the day close has occurred and prior
to the end-of-day report being processed), a CLOSECON.%C file is created in the root directory,
where %C is the POS number. The data in CLOSECON.%C is appended to PREVIOUS.LOG in
the P:REPORTS directory and the CLOSECON.%C file is deleted from the root directory.