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Extracting
and Displaying BER Records in SSDOT for Pears
You may want to
share records among Pears databases by
simply dumping them out of one and loading them into another without converting
them or you may want to review BER records to decide which indexes to
create for a database. In either case, you must first export the records
in BER format. SSDOT for pears provides
two options for extracting BER formatted records from a Pears
database. One allows you to view the records on screen and the second
allows you to export them to a file. The procedures for performing both
of these activities are outlined in the tables below.
Contents
Extracting
BER Records
Displaying BER Records
Extracting
BER Records
SSDOT
for Pears provides menu options for extracting and displaying BER
records from a Pears database. The procedure
below provides the steps that you can perform to extract BER records from
your Pears database.
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1. Start
SSDOT for Pears and press Enter to go the Main Menu.
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2. Type
2 and press Enter to go to the BER Records Menu.
| Result: |
The
following screen appears:
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#### SSDOT Pears
Administration ####
BER Records
Menu
1. Display BER
records
2. Extract BER records
3. Exit SSDOT
Working Database:
No database selected
Type "l"
To LIST available databases
Type "s" To SET a working database
Type "u" To UNSET the working database
Press [ENTER]
key to return to Main Menu
>
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3. Type
2 and press Enter to begin extracting BER records from your Pears
database.
| Result: |
The
following prompt appears:
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Name of database:
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4. Type the
name of the database from which you want to extract BER records
and press Enter.
| Result: |
The
following prompt appears:
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Number of records
to EXTRACT or press [ENTER] key or all:
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5. Are there
a certain number of records that you want to extract:
- Yes:
Type the total number of records that you want to extract and
press Enter.
- No:
Press Enter to extract all the records in the database.
| Result: |
The
following prompt appears:
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Number of records
to SKIP or press [ENTER] key for none:
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6. Are there
a certain number of records that you want to skip during export:
- Yes:
Type the total number of records that you want to skip and press
Enter.
- No:
Press Enter to extract all the records in the database.
| Result: |
The
following prompt appears:
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File name to
which to EXTRACT records:
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7. Type the
complete path to the file to which you want to export the records
and press Enter.
| Example: |
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| File
name to which to EXTRACT records: <WebZ_root>/dbbuilder/dbs/marcus/marcus2.ber |
| Result: |
Confirmation
information like the following should appear:
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BER Records successfully
extracted to <WebZ_root>/dbbuilder/dbs/Marcus/marcus2.ber.
Press [ENTER]
key to continue:
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8. Press Enter
to go back to the BER Records Menu.
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Displaying
BER Records
You have two ways
to display BER records that have been extracted from a Pears
database: You can view them on screen or export them to a file and
view them using a UNIX or Windows-based tool. The procedure below provides
the steps for either displaying records on screen or sending them to a
text file.
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1. Start
SSDOT for Pears and press Enter to go the Main Menu.
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2. Type
2 and press Enter to go to the BER Records Menu.
| Result: |
The
following screen appears:
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#### SSDOT Pears
Administration ####
BER Records
Menu
1. Display BER
records
2. Extract BER records
3. Exit SSDOT
Working Database:
No database selected
Type "l"
To LIST available databases
Type "s" To SET a working database
Type "u" To UNSET the working database
Press [ENTER]
key to return to Main Menu
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3. Type
1 and press Enter to display BER records.
| Result: |
The
following prompt appears:
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Name of BER file
to DISPLAY or press [ENTER] key to return to menu:
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4. Type the
full path to the file containing the BER records that you which
to display.
| Example: |
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| Name
of BER file to DISPLAY or press [ENTER] key to return to menu:<WebZ_root>/dbbuilder/dbs/marcus/marcus2.ber |
| Result: |
The
following prompt appears:
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Name of Output
file or [ENTER] key for screen:
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5. Do you want
to view the records on screen?
| Result: |
A
display similar to the following should appear on screen:
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Working, please
wait |Record Number:1
DataDir:
fldid(0) asn1class(1) form(1) length(0) count(20)
child: DataDir: fldid(0) asn1class(2) form(0) length(0) count(8)
data: 6e 67 6d 20 20 4b 61 20 ngm Ka
sibling: DataDir: fldid(1) asn1class(2) form(0) length(0) count(12)
data: 6f 63 6d 33 39 34 35 31 39 31 37 20 ocm39451917
sibling: DataDir: fldid(3) asn1class(2) form(0) length(0) count(5)
data: 4f 43 6f 4c 43 OCoLC
sibling: DataDir: fldid(5) asn1class(2) form(0) length(0) count(9)
data: 31 39 39 38 30 37 30 38 20 19980708
sibling: DataDir: fldid(8) asn1class(2) form(0) length(0) count(40)
data: 39 38 30 37 30 38 74 31 39 39 38 31 39 39 37 63 980708t19981997c
61 75 31 30 30 20 6a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 au100 j
20 76 6c 65 6e 67 20 64 vleng d
sibling: DataDir: fldid(28) asn1class(2) form(1) length(0) count(3)
child: DataDir: fldid(0) asn1class(2) form(0) length(0) count(2)
Press [ENTER]
key to continue or type "q" to quit:
- No:
Type a full path to the text file that will hold the BER to text
records and press Enter.
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<WebZ_root>/dbbuilder/dbs/marcus/marcus2.txt
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| Result: |
A
display similar to the following should appear on screen:
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Working,
please wait |BER file: <WebZ_root>/dbbuilder/dbs/marcus/marcus2.ber
successfully converted to readable format.
Output File: <WebZ_root>/dbbuilder/dbs/marcus/marcus2.txt.
Press [ENTER]
key to continue:
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6. Press Enter
to return to the BER Records Menu.
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See Also
Pears
System Overview
SSDOT for Pears
The SiteSearch Database Operations
Tool (SSDOT)
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