Dictionary/3000 Reference Manual (32244-90001)

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The Dictionary DICTPDE Utility
>ALTER TEXT
>ALTER TEXT
Changes the generated code to include comments lines about the extracted entities.
Prompts
The following prompt is issued when the command-subcommand ALTER TEXT is entered:
GENERATE COMMENTS (N/Y)>
GENERATE COMMENTS
(N/Y)> Enter Y to generate comment lines which describe the entities extracted
from the Dictionary. These comment lines are written to the output file
along with the data declarations and, if specified, the string constants
generated for the file names. DICTPDE assumes that comment lines are
not generated unless Y is entered in response to this prompt.
Pressing [[RETURN]] in response to this prompt indicates that no
comment lines are generated for the extracted entities from the Dictionary.
Discussion
ALTER TEXT allows you to generate additional code for the entities extracted from the
Dictionary in the form of comment lines. These comment lines include the following
information about the extracted entity:
entity name of the entity extracted from the Dictionary.
entity-name the entity long-name (as it was entered in DICTDBM).
entity-resp the name of the person, department, or area responsible
for the integrity of the entity.
date-change the date of the latest change made to the entity in the
Dictionary.
date-create the date the entity was created in the Dictionary.
identity-change the identity of the person, department, or area that made
the last change to the entity in the Dictionary.
identity-create the identity of the person, department or area that created
the entity in the Dictionary.