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The most common errors are just typing errors, mostly typing the wrong
thing, or the right thing in the wrong place. These are the common typing
errors:
- Typing on a panel where you are not allowed to type at all.
This produces the stick man at the bottom of the screen. You cannot
type on Help panels or panels that display the chart. The cure is to
press RESET and not to type again. Leave the panel, using PF12 or
PF3.
- Typing a letter where you should type a number. You'll get a message
like this:
ADM1005 E PLEASE ENTER A WHOLE NUMBER IN THE RANGE 1 TO 8
The ICU recognizes this, turns the thing that is wrong red, and gives
you a message telling you what to do.
- Getting a number wrong. You'll get a message like this:
ADM1107 E PLEASE ENTER A NUMBER
The ICU gives you a message here as well. But you can get caught if
you type in something like 1,00 because the ICU does not recognize it
as a number. The safest way is to leave out all punctuation except
the decimal point.
- Putting something funny in a command line
If you type in a number on a command line, the ICU thinks it is a
panel number and goes to that panel if it can. This is a bit
surprising if you typed the number by mistake. If the number is not a
panel number, the ICU gives you a message telling you so, again this
can be a surprise if you were trying to type something else. If you
just mis-type a command, the ICU gives you a message telling you what
you do.
You'll see a message like this:
ADM1015 E COMMAND IS NOT LISTED. SEE HELP PANEL FOR A COMPLETE LIST
The commands you can use are listed at the bottom of the screen if the
preview chart is not set on, and also on the first Help screen.
- Not knowing how to get the old value back.
If you type something that the ICU does not like, and then cannot find
anything that the ICU will accept, you can return to the last value
you had by pressing either the CLEAR key, or PF1 followed by PF3.
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GDDM-PGF V2R1.3 Interactive Chart Utility
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