AutoSYNC Software User's Guide (Update 17)

Command Interpreter
HP AutoSYNC User’s Guide—522580-018
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COPY
the name of the file that is input to the copy command. It can be a process, a tape,
terminal, or disk file. Supported disk files include edit files, spooler files, Enscribe
structured and unstructured files.
out-file
the name of the file that is destination of the copy command. It can be a process, a
tape, terminal, a printer or disk file. Supported disk files include edit files, spooler
files, Enscribe structured and unstructured files. If the out-file is omitted, the
destination of the COPY is the AutoSYNC out file, which is by default the terminal
control-options.
COUNT num-records
the number of records or rows to be copied. If omitted, all records are copied.
FIRST ordinal-record-num
KEY { record-spec | key-value }
key-spec ALTKEY key-value [, key-value ]
the starting record of the input file to copy. If omitted, the copy starts at the first
record or row in the input file.
ordinal-record-num
is the number of records or rows from the beginning of the file that are to be
skipped. The first record in a file is record zero. The maximum value is
4294967295.
KEY { record-spec | key-value }
record-spec is a fixed quantity limited to 2**63 -1.
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for unstructured files, record-spec is the starting relative byte address.
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for relative files, record-spec is the starting record number
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for entry-sequenced files, record-spec is the 64-bit numeric record key
key-value applies only to key-sequenced files and specifies the approximate
position of the starting record; key-value is specified as a string or as integer
byte values in the range of 0 to 255.
The key-value is entered as follows:
“[“ { string } [, { string } ] “]”
{ 0:255 } [ { 0,255 } ]
where the integers represent the byte values. To specify a list of strings,
enclose each string in quotation marks separated by a comma and enclose the
list in square brackets.