>'UTIL21
>N1
>f
 
 
                              pfilt - filter
                                   - # -
>X
pfilt
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tHIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE, USER DEFINABLE CONVERSION FILTER THAT MAY BE USED FOR EITHER INPUT OR OUTPUT DEVICES.  tHE PROGRAM WILL READ AN ASCII TEXT FILE CREATED BY THE USER (VIA THE build COMMAND) TO DETERMINE THE PARAMETERS.  tHE SYNTAX OF THE pfilt UTILITY IS:
 
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          !  filter,*AA,pfilt,FILESPEC                  !
          !                                             !
          !          AA = ANY ldos DEFINED DEVICE       !
          !          FILESPEC = ANY VALID ldos FILESPEC !
          !                     DEFAULT EXTENSION /jcl  !
          !                                             !
          !  ABBR: none                                 !
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     tHIS COMMAND WILL READ THE DESIGNATED FILE AND CREATE A TABLE OF THE PARAMETERS IN THE FILE.  tHE ENTIRE PROGRAM WILL THEN RELOCATE ITSELF TO HIGH MEMORY, AND PROTECT ITSELF.  tHE FORMAT OF THE DATA FILE IS AS FOLLOWS:
 
a NUMERICAL VALUE, FOLLOWED BY AN EQUAL SIGN (=), FOLLOWED BY THE VALUE TO BE CONVERTED TO.
 
iF THE FIRST CHARACTER IS A COLON (:), THEN THE FOLLOWING CHARACTER IS INTERPRETED IN ITS ascii FORM.
 
iF THE FIRST CHARACTER IS A PERIOD (.), THEN THE FOLLOWING DATA ON THE LINE IS CONSIDERED A REMARK, AND IS NOT EXECUTED, ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE DISPLAYED TO THE VIDEO.
 
     aLL NUMERICAL VALUES MAY BE ENTERED IN bINARY, dECIMAL, hEX OR oCTAL BY preceding THE NUMBER WITH b, d, h OR o RESPECTIVELY (DEFAULT DECIMAL).
 
     fOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF ACCEPTABLE SYNTAX:
31=37
31=H44
O37=D44
B11011011=O177
HFF=HFE
:a=A
:q=b

