JPH0719208B2 - Message text assembly edit information load method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a message text assembling / editing information loading system, and more particularly to assembling a message text output from a computer main body to an output device such as an operator console, a terminal, a printer device, or the like. The present invention relates to a method for loading message text assembling / editing information such as message original texts used.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, this type of message text assembling / editing control method has previously stored message text assembling / editing information such as a message original text in an external storage device such as a magnetic disk device. The system was designed to access and retrieve message text assembly editing information such as the original message text (see Japanese Patent Publication No. 60-19012).

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

In the above-described conventional message text assembling / editing control method, the message text assembling / editing information such as the original message text is stored in the external storage device such as the magnetic disk device. There is a drawback that the performance of the computer system is deteriorated because access must be performed.

Therefore, the inventor of the present application has already proposed a message text assembling / editing control system in which message text assembling / editing information such as a message original text is set in the virtual storage space in advance (Japanese Patent Application No. 60-253055).

By the way, in the message text assembling / editing control method proposed by the inventor of the present application, when the message text assembling / editing information such as the message original text is fixedly held in the virtual storage space, the message text can be easily changed. There is a tendency to disappear and lack flexibility.

In view of the above points, an object of the present invention is to allow flexibility in changing message texts by loading message text assembly / edit information such as message texts from an external storage device into a virtual storage space when the computer system is started up. Another object of the present invention is to provide a message text assembling edit information loading method that does not require access to an external storage device during operation of the computer system.

[Means for solving problems]

The message text assembling / editing information loading method of the present invention is a message text assembling / editing control method for assembling and editing a message text by referring to a message original text provided in a virtual memory space based on instruction information given from a message issuing program. In, an external storage device having an original text storage file for storing a plurality of message original texts each assigned a predetermined identification code, a virtual storage space including an original text storage area, and the external storage device at the time of initial setting of a computer system The identification code and the message original text are read from the original text storage file, the identification code and the message original text are separated, and the identification code, the pointer from the identification code to the message original text, and the message original text are virtualized. Empty memory Of and an initialization program to be loaded into the original storage area.

[Action]

In the message text assembling / editing information loading method of the present invention, the external storage device has a text storage file that stores a plurality of message texts to which predetermined identification codes are respectively assigned, and the virtual storage space includes a text storage area. , The initialization program reads the identification code and the message original text from the original storage file of the external storage device during the initialization of the computer system, separates the identification code and the message original text, and the pointer and the message from the identification code and the identification code to the message original text. The original text and are loaded into the original text storage area of the virtual storage space.

〔Example〕

 Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a message text assembly edit information loading system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The message text assembling / editing information loading method of the present embodiment is a disk having a text storage file 5 for storing a plurality of records 50 each of which is a predetermined identification code 51 and a message text 52 to which the identification code 51 is assigned. The record 50 is read from the file storage device 5 of the file device 1 and the disk file device 1, and an array of the message text 52, the identification code 51 corresponding to the message text 52, and the pointer 53 to the message text 52 is arranged in the text of the virtual storage space 3. A system initialization program 2 to be loaded into the storage area 4, a virtual storage space 3 having an original text storage area 4, an original text storage area 4 provided in the virtual storage space 3, and an original text storage file provided in the disk file device 1. 5 and processing means 6 for executing the system initialization program 2 It has been.

The virtual storage space 3 is realized by a known technique by, for example, a magnetic disk device, a main storage device, and an operating system.

Referring to FIG. 2, the computer system to which the message text assembling / editing information loading method of this embodiment is applied has a disk file device 1, a system initial setting program 2, a virtual storage space 3, and an original text shown in FIG. In addition to the storage area 4, the original text storage file 5, and the processing means 6, a message issuing program 7, a message editing program 8,
It is configured to include a message output program 9 and an output device 10 such as a CRT device. The processing means 6
Also executes the message issuing program 7, the message editing program 8 and the message output program 9 during the operation of the computer system.

Next, the operation of the message text assembling / editing information loading method of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described.

The system initialization program 2 executed in the processing means 6 reads the disk file device 1 having the original text storage file 5 as one step of the system initialization processing at the time of starting the computer system, and identifies the identification code in the original text storage file 5. Record 50 consisting of 51 and original message 52
Is detected, an identification code 51 is displayed on the work area (not shown).
And the message original text 52 are stored separately. Identifying code
When all the records 50 consisting of 51 and original message 52 are read, the system initialization program 2
All the message originals 52 are transferred and loaded into the original storage area 4 of the virtual memory space 3, and the array of all identification codes 51 and pointers to the message originals 52 corresponding to each identification code 51 is arranged in ascending order. Created in and virtual memory space 3
The original text storage area 4 is loaded.

The system initialization program 2 is executed only once when the system is started up, and thereafter the computer system is in operation.

Message from the system initialization program 2
The original text storage area 4 of the virtual storage space 3 loaded with the message text assembling / editing information such as 52 is referred to when the message editing program 8 edits the message text issued by the message issuing program 7 during system operation. .

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, when the message editing program 8 detects instruction information for instructing message output during execution of the message issuing program 7, the message editing program 8 identifies the identification code specified by the message issuing program 7. A pointer table 11 having a plurality of entries consisting of pointers P (P ₁ ) to P (P _n ) to the variable length message data P _{1 to} P _n to which 51 is added is created. When the creation of the pointer table 11 is completed, the message editing program 8 accesses the original text storage area 4 of the virtual storage space 3 with the original message text 52 to which the identification code 51 matching the identification code 51 specified by the message issuing program 7 is added. And select. If the selected message source text 52 has multiple fields f (C ₁ ), f (P ₁ ), f (P ₂ ), f (C ₂ ) and f (P ₃ ), corresponding to these fields. Message text 12 is created as follows. That is, since the first field f of message original 52 selected (C ₁₎ includes a fixed-length message data C _1, the fixed-length message data C ₁ is the first-th field of the message text 12 Is set. Also, since the second field f (P ₁ ) of the original message text 52 does not include fixed length message data, the pointer table 11
The pointer P (P ₁ ) which is the content of the first entry of the message is referred to, the variable length message data P ₁ designated by this pointer P (P ₁ ) is acquired from the virtual storage space 3 or the like, and the message text 12 It is set in the second field f (P ₁ ). In the same manner, the third, fourth and fifth fields f of the message text 12
Variable length message data P ₂ , fixed length message data C ₂ and variable length message data P ₃ are set for (P ₂ ), f (C ₂ ) and f (P ₃ ), respectively. As a result of the above,
A desired message text 12 is edited and generated based on the message text assembling edit information such as the original message text 52.

The message text 12 thus generated by the message editing program 8 is output to the output device 10 such as a CRT device by the message output program 9.

Although the external storage device is the disk file device in the above embodiment, it goes without saying that the present invention can be similarly applied to other external storage devices such as a magnetic tape device.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, when the system is started up, the external storage device in which the message text assembly edit information such as the message original text is stored is accessed only once, and the message text assembly edit information such as the message original text is stored in the virtual storage space. By loading it into the message text assembly edit information such as the message original text, it is possible to have flexibility and to retain the message text assembly edit information such as the message original text in the virtual storage space during system operation. By doing so, it is possible to improve the performance of the computer system by eliminating access to the external storage device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a computer system to which the message text assembly / editing information loading method of this embodiment is applied, and FIG. 3 is this embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a process of generating a message text using message text assembly edit information such as a message original text loaded in the virtual storage space by the message text assembly edit information loading method. In the figure, 1 ... Disk file device, 2 ... System initial setting program, 3 ... Virtual storage space, 4 ... Original text storage area, 5 ... Original text storage file, 6 ... Processing means, 7 ... Message issuing program, 8 ... Message editing program , 9 ... Message output program, 10 ... Output device, 11 ... Pointer table, 12 ... Message text, 50 ... Record, 51 ... Identification code, 52 ... Message original text, 53 ... Pointer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A message text assembling / editing control method for assembling and editing a message text by referring to a message original text provided in a virtual storage space based on instruction information given from a message issuing program, and a predetermined identification. An external storage device having a text storage file for storing a plurality of message texts to which codes are respectively allocated; a virtual storage space including a text storage area; and a text storage file from the text storage file of the external storage device when initializing a computer system. The identification code and the message text are read, the identification code and the message text are separated, and the identification code, the pointer from the identification code to the message text, and the message text are stored in the virtual storage space in the text storage area. Initial settings to load The message text assemble editing information load system, characterized in that it comprises program and, the.