Structure Of Polling Files - Samsung SAM4S ECR SPS-1000 User Manual

Structure of Polling Files

When you poll, the session will always create a poll file with the date as the name of the file.
For example, if you poll on 11-02-1999, for store BIGBOYS, the session will create a file on
the hard disk named \SAM1000\BIGBOYS\POLL\11021999.POL. If you poll this store a
second time on the same day, it will append the data to the end of the existing file.
The structure of the poll file is as follows:
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All data is ASCII.
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A polling session for a store is everything that is done from the moment the PC calls the
store, up to the hang-up with the store.
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The first line saved to disk of any polling session is:
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The first three characters on the line is ASCII character decimal 16, a right arrow. This
designates that this is the start of the polling session. The name of the store follows, a
forward slash, the date, a forward slash, and the time in hours, minutes and seconds.
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The last line of the entire session will be saved as:
SESSION END
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The last three characters of the line is ASCII character decimal 17, a left arrow. This
designates that this is the end of the polling session.
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If you do not define any elements in your polling session, you would have a polled file
that would look something like this:
SESSION END
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When you define your polling session by choosing elements in the store's session data,
the polled data will be save below line 1:
???BIGBOYS/11-02-1999/17:06:45
??X1/FINANCIAL
?FINANCIAL
+PLU LVL1 TTL
-PLU LVL1 TTL
+PLU LVL2 TTL
-PLU LVL2 TTL
+PLU LVL3 TTL
REPORT END??
SESSION END???
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The time and date on the first line of the session is the time and date that the session
started.
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