
Newton. To upload
field
sites choose receive text
me
from the transfers pulldown menu. Next
select the directory and
file
name to which you want to save the uploaded data and press
OK.
The PC
is
now read to receive uploaded site records. On the utilities page
in
FieldPad press the
Upload8ookEntries
button to commence the data transfer process.
Installing
lookup
tables
Provided with each Newton
is
a disk containing lookup tables copied from the ORACLE
database. The lookup tables are stored
as
tab-delimited
files
in
a directory called data. These
files
can be edited,
if
required,
in
any text editor to obtain a subset
of
values.
A tab-delimited text
file
for loading into FieldPad has the following format.
1.
A header with the soup name, and name and format
of
the data columns.
2.
Tab-delimited columns
of
data, either two columns
or
three.
3.
Each
file
is
terminated by the string BYE!.
If
you have more than one table
to
load they can be appended together into a single
file.
The
Newton
will
know when one soup has finished loading when it reads the terminating string
BYE!.
It
will
then interpret the next line
as
a new table. A batch
file
has been set up to output the
files
containing the lookup tables
in
the correct format. The following describes the steps
in
creating and loading lookup tables.
I. Export tables
in
tab-delimited format, without any quotes around fields from the Oracle
database. For two-column
files
the format is code, then description. There are two three
column
files,
the subtypes for lithdata and subtypes for structures
files.
These
files
have the
format: subtype code, datatype code, description.
2.
The table files should be stored
in
the DATA directory with the file extension TAB
3.
Run the
MERGE
ALL batch command from a DOS prompt. The MERGEALL batch file
is
in
the directory called TABLE. Also
in
this directory are the headers for all the lookup
table files and a file containing the BYE! string.
4. MERGEALL merges each lookup table file with its header and the terminating string
BYE!. The tables ready
to
download are created in the DOWNLOAD directory. There
is a . TXT file for each table. A
merged.
TXT file is also created which contains all the
tables,
allowing
downloading
of
all
tables
in
one
operation.
5.
Ensure the table(s) you are about
to
download have been removed from the Newton,
otherwise the new table data will be appended
to
the existing tables.
6.
Removing tables from the Newton can be done via the Utilities form
in
FieldPad,
or
via
the
Newton
as. Removing tables via the Utilities form
is
probably the easiest method
and has been described above.
7.
To
make the Newton ready to receive text
files
start Siurpee. When Siurpee
is
open the
Newton
is
ready to receive text
files.
In Terminal under the Transfers pulldown menu choose
send textjile. Select the
file
that you wish to send and click
OK.
The
file
will be transmitted
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