This form is displayed when you click the Multi-disk options... button in the Floppy disk usage group on the (...) File Path form.
When sending files by API copy to your local PC, you can transfer the file to a floppy disk. Where the file is larger than one disk's capacity, this form enables you to specify how the file is split over more than one floppy disk. It also enables you to specify the inclusion of an additional file in the transfer, to document the number of floppy disks required, for example.
Note: This facility is intended only for an API copy in PUT mode, where the PC path name begins with A:\.
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Save: Returns you to the File Path form, updating any changes to floppy disk options
Cancel: Returns you to the File Path form, abandoning any changes made using this form
Help: Displays this help page in a web browser
This tab specifies how the file is split over more than one floppy disk if the file is larger than one disk's capacity.
Disk name: Name or label to be written to all floppy disks comprising the transfer set
Numbering?: A tick causes disk numbering to be added to the label, for example PHF01, PHF02, and so on.
End-of-file markers:
EOF on each disk: An end-of-file marker is added to all floppy disks comprising the transfer set
EOF on Last disk only: An end-of-file marker is added only to the last floppy disk of the transfer set
This tab enables you to specify file and record end markers and the maximum record size.
File name: Copied from the relevant filename field in the File information group on the File Transfer Editor (non-editable)
Record size: Maximum size of the file's records in characters, excluding end-of-record markers (and excluding the end-of-file marker)
Note: Even where the file spans more than one floppy disk, the maximum Record size must be less than the capacity of one floppy disk.
EOR Char: Character (hexadecimal) marking the end of each record in the file or the end-of-disk
EOF Char: Character (hexadecimal) marking the end of the whole file
This tab enables you to include an additional file (whose purpose you specify on the Additional File content tab) in the transfer.
Additional file?: A tick enables an additional file to be included in the transfer (also enabling this tab's remaining fields and the Additional File content tab's fields)
Additional File name: Filename identifying the additional file
Numbering: A tick causes disk numbering to be added to the labels of disks where the additional file spans more than one disk.
Additional File EOR: Character (hexadecimal) marking the end of each record in the additional file
Additional File EOF: Character (hexadecimal) marking the end of the whole additional file
This tab enables you to specify the purpose of the additional file.
Note: This tab's fields are editable only when Additional file? on the Additional file information tab is ticked.
Number of disks needed: Indicates that the additional file contains only the number of floppy disks needed for the file transfer
Other: Indicates that the additional file contains information other than just the number of floppy disks needed for the file transfer
Tip: What that other information consists of is described in Additional File content.
Additional File content: What that Other information about the main file consists of
Note: Additional File content is enabled only when Other is selected.
