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Running the SDINIT Program
Special Character Responses
When running the SDINIT program, the following responses have special
meaning:
[[CONTROL]] X Causes the line on which the [[CONTROL]] X was entered
to be ignored. The system displays three exclamation
points (! ! !) and then waits for you to reenter the
line.
[[CONTROL]] Y Causes the line on which the [[CONTROL]] Y was entered
to be reprompted. If, however, a [[CONTROL]] Y is
entered in the middle of prompting for the list of
dictionary capacities, the program goes back to the
previous level of prompts.
The SDINIT Prompts
The first value in all SDINIT prompts is the default value and can always
be used by hitting [[RETURN]]. For example, when [[RETURN]] is pressed in
response to the prompt shown below, the Initialization option will be
used:
Initialization / Reinitialization (I/R) >
The SYSDIC Dictionary
It might be helpful here to point out that the name of the dictionary
which is always used by the initialization procedure is SYSDIC. You are
never prompted to supply a dictionary name.
Although an MPE account may have several dictionaries in existence, there
can never be more than one per group. Each of these dictionaries will be
named SYSDIC. The ability to achieve the functionality of more than one
dictionary per user or per group is provided by the domain and version
control capabilities. In this way, you can partition an individual
dictionary into different naming spaces and versions and, in effect
(although not in fact), have more than one dictionary. You will,
however, have just one dictionary named SYSDIC. The domain and version
control capabilities are described in detail in Chapter 4 of the HP
System Dictionary/XL General Reference Manual, Volume 1 (32254-90004).
The RUN Command
You are now ready to run the initialization program. To run SDINIT,
enter the following command:
RUN SDINIT.PUB.SYS
When [[RETURN]] is entered, SDINIT will respond with the following
banner:
HP System Dictionary SDINIT HP32254v.uu.ff - (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1985
At this point, you are given two options:
1. ) to initialize the dictionary, or
2. ) to reinitialize an existing dictionary.
The first prompt that appears is shown below:
Initialization / Reinitialization (I/R) >
Enter [[RETURN]] or "I" to initialize a new dictionary or "R" to
reinitialize an existing dictionary. If you choose Initialization and
the dictionary already exists, you will be given a message telling you
that the dictionary already exists and the SDINIT program will terminate.
The existing dictionary capacities and/or data will not be overwritten.
If you want to make changes to the existing dictionary capacities or
password, you must choose the Reinitialization option.