Instruction Manual

Running SWID With Customized Switches

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-FO (Formatted Output)

The -FO switch option causes SWID to output formatted binary data. The binary data

is written to the OUT file you specify. This switch is provided to enable parsing of the

SWID output.

The output of SWID consists of multiple FO-REC records. For the DDL source of the

record and for further details on how to read SWID output, see Section 5, SWID

Formatted Output.

-AF (ASCII Fingerprints)

The -AF switch option causes SWID to output the structured format of the fingerprint in

ASCII form in addition to the binary form. This switch can be used only when the -FO

switch is also used. For the DDL source of the record and for further details on how to

read SWID output, see Section 5, SWID Formatted Output and Section 6, SWID

Server Interface.

-SH (Suppress Header)

The -SH switch option causes SWID to omit the header and footer from the formatted

output file. For textual output, this switch causes hyphens to be omitted from the

fingerprint display.

-BS (Be My Server)

The -BS switch option enables other applications to use SWID as a server process.

Any application can use SWID, either as a Pathway server or as a private dedicated

server process by using the -BS switch. The applications that might use SWID as a

server frequently are DSM/SCM, IC, SYSGEN, and Binder. For further details, see

Section 6, SWID Server Interface.

Caution. If no OUT file is specified in the TACL RUN command and this switch is used, binary

data is written to the terminal. If the terminal displays unusual graphic characters, reset the

terminal.

Note. If a file I/O error occurs in extracting the fingerprint, SWID writes the error message in

place of the fingerprint. The error message is enclosed in

** for ease of reading the output.

Each possible error message and the suggested recovery method is described in Appendix A,

Error Messages.

If both original and current fingerprints have been computed and do not match, SWID

formatted output

** mismatch ** after the original fingerprint. However, with textual

output, SWID shows Yes in the mismatch column.