Creating PIF data at a workstation

GDDM V3R2 Base Application Programming Reference

Creating PIF data at a workstation

GDDM V3R2 Base Application Programming Reference
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There are two ways of creating PIF data at a workstation:

By capturing alphanumerics or alphanumerics and graphics data that is displayed on a monitor. This is done by:
1. Pressing the Ws Ctrl key
2. Pressing the Print or Print and Shift keys.
This spools a file called INDPRTnn.PIF to the user's INDPRT directory for printing at the workstation.
By writing an application program to create and save alphanumerics or graphics data, or both of these.

If they are to be transferred to GDDM, the PIF files created at a workstation must contain only those drawing orders that are recognized as GDF orders; the GDF orders are listed and described in "GDF order descriptions" in topic 10.0. The GDF utility converts orders where possible and diagnoses any changes made.

Note: Spooling a GDDM picture locally causes structural information to be lost because GDDM optimizes the data stream for display. Therefore, if possible you should create your PIF files at the host rather than spooling them locally into PC disk storage and retrieving them from the workstation.

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