
Appendix B - ASCII File Formats
208 025-9034AA
Subscribers File
The following list contains the locations of all the fields in the ASCII subscriber data
record. This record is read by the ascdat.exe program, and used to create the binary
subscriber data record in the subs2000.chg file. The subs2000.chg file is sent to the Model
2100 and Model 2200 paging terminals via the ZlinkW “post” command. The “post”
command is used to update the subscriber data in the paging terminal.
When ascdat.exe refuses a record it will often use the field names from this list to indicate
what was wrong with the record. Thus the user of ZbaseW may see an error message that
says ascdat.exe experienced an error, and looking in this list he may be able to get an idea
of what ascdat.exe is complaining about. This in turn may point the user to a field he can
change in ZbaseW.
A vendor developing a ZbaseW replacement program, who is using ascdat.exe to create a
subs2000.chg file, can consult this list to find the fields that need to be populated in the
subsdata.asc file input to ascdat.exe. Running the ZbaseW program will generally show
what goes in the field.
SUBSCRIBER top level data:
Byte Byte
Field Name Start Length
--------------- ------- ------
ID 0 8(first digit is always 0.
For example
01234567)
STATUS 8 1
PRTY 9 1
SECUR 10 4
PERPASS 14 4
CAPCODE 18 11
TRANSMT 29 1
VPROMPT 30 1
MALLWD0 31 1
MALLWD1 32 1
MALLWD2 33 1
IMODE 34 1
NAME 43 20
CUSTNO 63 10 (doesn't go in binary record)
RATECO 73 5 (doesn't go in binary record)
INITIAL 83 8 (doesn't go in binary record)
ALTER 91 8 (doesn't go in binary record)
COMMENT 99 20 (doesn't go in binary record)
The Capcode field requires some explanation:
• 2-tone: It can be blank, 4 character or 5 character. For example:
“2 ”
“2 C123”
“2 RE123”
• 5-tone: It can have a preamble or no preamble. For example:
“5 0-12345”
“5 N-12345”
• DTMF: It can have 1 to 7 DTMF digits (0123456789ABCD*#) and has a leading
letter of ‘F’ because it shares the space used by Flex. For example:
“F 1234567”
“F ABCD*#”
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