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4. Press
C
and the following appears:
Select an operation
Esc=exit
Tk:1
2
3
E)ncode card
C)lear tracks
This display indicates that all three tracks are empty.
5. Press
1
for encoding Track 1 and the following appears:
Tk1:001
F1=FS
F3=Var
Ins
Enter=done
%?
The cursor will be flashing on the symbol for the end of track (
?
); this is position 001.
F1=FS
means press
F1
to insert a Field Separator.
F3=Var
means press
F3
to insert a
blank for a variable character.
When the
Ins
key is pressed, the display toggles between
Ins
and
Ovr
.
This key
permits a character to be inserted or overstruck with another character.
Enter=done
means
press
Enter
when the change to the track is complete.
6.
Type the following (ignore the spaces except between the two names):
A12345 F3 F3 F3
F1 SARAH SMITH F1 1234567890
.
F1
and
F3
are function keys at the top of the
keyboard. This should appear as:
%A12345---^SARAH SMITH^1234567890?
This information will be encoded on the Format Card.
7. Press
Enter
, and the following display will appear:
Select an operation
Esc=exit
Tk:1*
2
3
E)ncode card
C)lear tracks
To review the information, press
1
, and after the review press
Enter
.
8.
To encode the Format Card, press
E
and follow the prompts. After the Format Card has
been successfully encoded, mark it as a Format Card so it can be easily identified when
encoding fixed format cards
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