THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700


S U M M A R Y


DIARY: August 17, 1994 09:07 AM Wednesday; Rod Welch

Bill wants SDS to run on his home computer and access PG&E network.

1...Summary/Objective
2...SDS Extract for Transfer
.....Testing on CPU #7
.....Install.bat
.....Testing successful


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CONTACTS 
0201 - PG&E Proj Mngmnt Transm Sys        415 973 6778 fax 8426
020101 - Mr. Bill DeHart, PMP
020102 - Senior Project Manager, Room 1183B-V11C =415 973 5655
020103 - Project Management Department

SUBJECTS
PG&E, SDS Program,
Configure for Bill's home

0404 -    ..
0405 - Summary/Objective
0406 -
040601 - Bill reported on using SDS via modem last night.  Developed plan to
040602 - improve performance by loading SDS on his home computer so he can then
040603 - download just data and control what goes out on the network.
040604 -
040605 - Completed preparing program and installation for this step, submitted
040606 - ref DIT 1 line 30 on SDS installation disk, as readme file.
040607 -
040608 -     See also Bill's record at
040609 -
040610 -
0407 -
0408 -
0409 - Discussion
0410 -
041001 - Bill said he was able to logon last night and use SDS, but it was too
041002 - slow using the mouse over the modem. I said we can configure a version
041003 - of SDS to run on his home computer, with the data base on the network
041004 - S: drive
041005 -
041006 - I need to create the code then experiment with it a bit over the phone
041007 - line.  Bill said there are two phone number to access it:
041008 -
041009 -                      415 973 7637
041010 -                      415 973 7464  *
041011 -
041012 -          *  He feels this number provides the best access.
041013 -
041014 -
041015 - He will provide a copy of the communication program they use.
041016 -
041017 -                      reachout
041018 -
041019 -    Got this later in the day (see discussion with Bill below) but may
041020 -    not really need it.  Guess it is a good idea to support his
041021 -    transfer of data.
041022 -
041023 -
041024 -
0411 -
0412 -
0413 - Analysis
0414 -
041401 - This was considered previously at ref SDS 1 line 65.  May be better to
041402 - give a version of SDS that has all data on local computer.  He can
041403 - then download to and from network as a resource.
041404 -
041405 - This allows everybody to control what is on the system.  They can
041406 - avoid putting personal stuff.
041407 -
041408 -
041409 - SDS Extract for Transfer
041410 -
041411 - We need a way to easily transfer the stuff.  In the PG&E office we
041412 - can use xcopy and or the extract routine.  Actually, the SDS extract
041413 - may the ideal means to do this.  Users can transfer everything from
041414 - the network to home, but can
041415 -
041416 - Decided to adopt this method.  Will just configure a regular program
041417 - that will work on his home computer, and transfer data via the
041418 - network.
041419 -
041420 -     [This did not work out after all per ref SDS 2 line 54, except
041421 -     may be able to modify the routine.]
041422 -
041423 -
041424 -
0415 -
0416 -
0417 - 1023 Discussion with Bill
0418 -
041801 - He provided a copy of the "reachout" com program.  Decided to create a
041802 - version that runs on d: since he has several hundred MB on d:.
041803 - Expained the idea of using xcopy like I have been doing at the PG&E
041804 - office to transfer the SDS data base to the network.  Bill said this
041805 - won't work over the phone line because he does not have access across
041806 - platforms on his home computer.
041807 -
041808 - We considered creating a pkzip batch file, then I realized the SDS
041809 - extract for transfer operation should do this work.  He cannot
041810 - transfer directories with his com software, reachout, but it can
041811 - transfer the SDS zip files created by Extract.  Then he can install
041812 - them.
041813 -
041814 -     [This did not work out after all per ref SDS 2 line 50, except
041815 -     may be able to modify the routine.]
041816 -
041817 -
041818 -
0419 -
0420 -
0421 - 08151
0422 -
042201 - Line 640 -label loct, did same thing as for creating S program, but
042202 - changed everything to d:
042203 -
0423 -
0424 -
0425 - 08021
0426 -
042601 - Line 130 -label jmp, made same modification.
042602 -
042603 - Made other changes to routines in c: sd 01, per ref SDS 1 line 104.
042604 -
042605 -
042606 -
0427 -
0428 -
0429 - 1906 created special bill.bat
0430 -
043001 - This is extracted from c: 01 02 maks.bat.  It is stripped of
043002 - everything except for assembling the executive program, and it does
043003 - this on directory:
043004 -
043005 -                      g: sd 91
043006 -
043007 -     ...instead of using g: sd 51, which is the normal end user
043008 -     program.  This creates the file 01.zip, so it can be installed by
043009 -     Bill with the normal SDS end user installation routine.
043010 -
043011 -
043012 - Here is the code:
043013 -
043014 -     REM
043015 -     REM
043016 -     REM                  Single User Program Creation
043017 -     REM                  ============================
043018 -     REM
043019 -     REM    Delete all existing program files.
043020 -     REM
043021 -     del g:\sd\50\*.zip
043022 -     REM
043023 -     REM
043024 -     REM
043025 -     md \90
043026 -     REM
043027 -     REM
043028 -     REM    Create zip file at secondary dir level.
043029 -     REM
043030 -     REM        Use dir g: sd 91, because that is where the files for
043031 -     REM        Bill's d: drive were created by modified 08151.
043032 -     REM
043033 -     g:
043034 -     cd\sd\91
043035 -     REM
043036 -     REM
043037 -     REM
043038 -     c:\sd\01\z -P -r -a g:\sd\50\01 *.*
043039 -     REM
043040 -     REM
043041 -     REM
043042 -     c:
043043 -     cd\sd\10
043044 -
043045 -
043046 -
043047 - We are really doing this kind of blind, because I cannot test the
043048 - thing on my own computer, because d: has all of the stuff.  Actually,
043049 - I might be able to do it on CPU #7.
043050 -
043051 -
043052 -     Testing on CPU #7
043053 -
043054 -     Will just go ahead and do this.  Will do it from DOS.
043055 -
043056 -     My main question is whether the thing will assemble global
043057 -     pointers
043058 -
043059 -
043060 -     Install.bat
043061 -
043062 -     I crashed it because the install program was not changed from c:
043063 -     to d:.  I made that change, and used Laplink to install the files
043064 -     from cpu #3 regular SDS code to the c: directories that were just
043065 -     corrupted by the SDS code intended for the d: drive.
043066 -
043067 -
043068 -     Testing successful
043069 -
043070 -     Seems to be successful, so will give it to Bill tomorrow.
043071 -
043072 -
043073 -
043074 - We need to figure out how to do this for his home computer.
043075 -
043076 -      Just copy the SDS icon, and the SDS pif file, then give him some
043077 -      instructions.
043078 -
043079 -
043080 -
043081 -
0431 -

SUBJECTS
Transfer Records Between CPUs

0504 - Summary/Objective
0505 -
050501 - Created readme file with instructions on how to transfer SDS records,
050502 - ref DIT 1 line 30.
050503 -
050504 - This is submitted to Bill only in the readme file on the SDS
050505 - installation disk.
050506 -
050507 -
050508 -
0506 -
Distribution. . . . See "CONTACTS"