Punch files

PREPROCESSOR - Modifies the FTAP punch file output for common cause and dependent analyses (conditional probabilities), removes complemented events, and corrects for mutually exclusive events. 

The postprocessor reads the punch file from FTAP and generates an output file in a format which can be read by BUILD. It can execute commands not found in FTAP. Features of the postprocessor include ... 

Selection 3 from the FTAPSUIT menu (Figure 6.4-3) runs FTAPlus to prepare input for the postprocessor (Figure 6.4-5). To print the contents of the block file, the postprocessor input must contain either the command PRTDNF or FRMBLK (selections 2 and 3 respectively). The command PRTDNF (print equation in disjunctive normal form) allows you to display the contents of a punch file in readable form. FRMBLK (form block) is required to generate an FTAP input file. The... 

Select 4 from this menu and POST (postprocessor) begins by requesting the data input file name (e.g., dg.pi - prepared by FTAPlus), the punch file name (e.g., dg.pch), the block file name (e g. dg.blk) and the name to be assigned to the new punch file (e.g., dgn.pch). Two outputs are produced FN.BLK and FNN.PCH. 

In contrast, soft-tooling methods use a computer-controlled punch and die, or a set of punches and die, and CNC. This approach allows for rapid design changes that only require the change of a computer file. These computer files, which are often referred to as drill or punch files, contain a set of X, y coordinates and a punch number for multiple punch machines. Computer programs are used to generate these files from CAD layout programs... 

SEARCHER draws the 2D projections of molecules in a unit cell and prints the result of the atomic coordinates, the structure factor tables, the final R-factor, and the bond distances. The atomic coordinates are written on the punch file which can be used as the input for the next calculations. 

CTfilcs originated in the time of punched cards and therefore their format is quite restrictive. For example, blanks usually arc significant and several consecutive spaces cannot simply be replaced by a single one. Spaces may correspond to missing entries, empty character positions within entries, spaces between entries, or 2cros in the case of numerical entries. Thus, eveiy piece of data has a precise and fixed location within a line in a data file. Moreover, the line length of CTfilcs is restricted to 80 characters. 

Using PCMODEL, draw H2O. Minimize using the MM3 force field. Save to the filename water.inp (or some such) in the GAMESS format. Copy to your GAMESS directory. Copy to filename INPUT and be sure that PUNCH has been renamed to PUNCH.OLD or has been erased entirely. Run using GAMESS.EXE > FILENAME.OUT. The INPUT file... 

With the advent of on-line searching in the 1970s, the Derwent file was one of the first to go on-line. It had subject retrieval capabiUty by the manual and punch code systems, tide terms, IPC, and broad subject groupings called Derwent classes, whose primary function had been to allocate patents to appropriate segments of the Derwent system. By 1981, abstracts were added to the database, after which abstracts for the entire back-file were added. 

Select 5 from the FTAPSUIT menu and BUILD starts by requesting the punch fi le name (e.g., dgn.pch or dg.pch depending on whether you want to run the original fault tree or the postprocessed fault tree. It requests the name to be given the importance input file (e.g., dg.ii) to select the type of input. Option 5 is pure probability, option 1 is failure rate. BUILD generates file FN.II for editing. 

FTAP Input file pv.fi Fig. 7.4-3 FTAP Punch Output pv.pch ... 

Although this is tedious work involving much measuring and weighing, once the data have been obtained they can be summarized on charts which can be filed in a usable punch card system, which in turn can be used to indicate clearly what to expect when emulsions of a similar type are to be prepared. A great deal of this type of information is already available in published reports and in the files of various laboratories. 

Connector Any means of communication between components we call a connector. A connector can be something as simple as a function call or a group of calls that provide for a collaboration, or it can be something more complex such as a dialog across an API. Or it might be a message sent via CORBA or COM or a file transfer, a pipe, or even the delivery of a deck of punched cards by courier. And of course, a GUI is a connector, just as a user is a component. 

It is possible that the future may also see the use of digital calculators in qualitative spectrometric analyses. Various types of punched cards have been used as a method of recording spectral data on pure compounds. The purpose of these files is to facilitate the identification of spectral data on unknown substances. Their use in infrared analysis has been covered by Mecke and Schmid (M6), Keuntzel (K3), and Baker, Wright, and Opler (B2). The last named authors describe a file of 3150 spectra which was expected eventually to be expanded to include up to 10,000 spectra. Zemany (Zl) discussed the use of edge-notched cards in cataloging mass spectra and Matthews (M4) describes a similar application in connection with X-ray diffraction powder data. These two applications made use of only hand-sorting methods the files of Baker et al. were intended to be processed by machine. 

NRC-NBS (Creitz) File of Spectrograms. Issued by National Research Council-National Bureau of Standards Committee on Spectral Absorption Data, National Bureau of Standards, Washington 25, DC. Spectra presented on edge-punched cards. 

Data obtained from Ethyl Corp. research laboratories file of machine-sorted punched cards. Each figure is total number of U. S. patent citations to compounds mentioned as serving that specific fuel-additive function. Since a given patent may cite several different compounds and some of these may serve several functions, these totals are larger than the number of separate patents. The actual number of separate patents identified as pertinent is 1879. 

RATES, USER PRINT, or USER PUNCH BASIC programs to store a value. The value may be retrieved by any of these BASIC programs. The value persists until overwritten using a PUT statement with the same set oT subscripts, or until the end of the run. For a KINETICS data block, the BASIC programs for the rate expressions are evaluated in the order in which they are defined in the input file. 

On the left edge there are two holes made by a hole puncher, for filing in a binder. They are located at the place where Specimen A shows Rauff s confirmation of receipt. The left margin is tom, or creased, and the punching is reinforced. On the photograph (Specimen B2) the reinforcement strip is clearly visible through the thin paper. 

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