McIDAS Programmer's Manual
Version 2006

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SKEDFILE

Scheduled McIDAS-X commands.

This binary file has 7172 words and is divided into two sections.

The file division is invisible to all parts of the schedule system accessing the file via the ID number.

For scheduled McIDAS commands Application Program Interfaces (APIs), refer to the API functions list at the end of this section.

Word allocation for the file

Word Description

0 - 7

unused

8 - 807

first section of scheduler entry information

808 - 871

unused

872 - 7171

second section of scheduler entry information

Word allocation for the first section

This section contains eight words for each entry (maximum of 100).

Word Description

0

time of the next scheduled run; all times are kept internally, in seconds, since 1 January 1972

1

number of runs remaining

2

interval between runs

3

late tolerance if the scheduler is delayed

4

terminal at which the command runs

5

ID number or name assigned when the command is entered in the schedule

6

initials of the person who entered the command in the schedule

7

project number under which the command runs

Word allocation for the second section

This section contains 64 words for each entry.

Word Description

0

time that the command first runs

1

total number of times the command runs

2

unused

3 - 63

text of the McIDAS-X command

API functions

Function Description

skio

schedule file I/O routines


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