EDITING STAND DESCRIPTIONS When you first start Entry you are greeted with the welcome screen shown below: ENTRY v2.0 by Walter J. Meerschaert and Lee C. Wensel After this screen disappears, you are asked to enter the name of a file containing the stand description data. If you are entering new data, you may wish to start a new file. If you enter a file name which does not exist, you will be asked if you want to create a new file. If you simply misspelled the file name, you have the opportunity to start over. Entry uses two screen formats, one for header information (lines 1 to 3 of the stand description) and another for tree information. These are described below. HEADER RECORDS After you start the program and successfully load a file of stand descriptions, the program automatically goes into header-edit mode. The following will then appear on the screen (with data from the file you specified): On the line following COMMAND, you can enter any of the one-letter commands listed in the box on the right side of the screen. The edit commands that allow you to move around inside of a field are available in the COMMAND line. Moving out of the COMMAND line into the data area is accomplished only through use of the one-letter commands. The current plot number is displayed in the lower right of the screen along with the number of plots in the file. Type [E] at the COMMAND prompt to start the actual editing process. The cursor will move to the label field and you can now edit or enter the label for the current plot. Hit return or [Enter] to move to the next field. Hit shift-Tab to move to the previous field. Hit the F1 function key to restore the field you are entering to the condition it was in when you entered the edit command. Hit the escape key ESC to restore all the edit fields and return to the command line. Hit the F2 function key to move back to the COMMAND line, recording your changes. In addition to these editing commands, Entry has a full set of file management commands that allow you to open, close, and save files; move through the current file; list the stand description labels in the current file; and copy stand descriptions from one file to another. The FILE command set can be viewed by entering a [2] at the command line. This brings up the following list of commands in the command window: FILE COMMANDS F name Open another file S [name] Save file [as name] Q [name] Quit file [as name] Q! Quit file [no save] X Exit to DOS, save all X! Exit to DOS, save none =n Move to file number n +n Move ahead n plots -n Move back n plots L List plots in this file C Copy curr. plot to another file K Kill curr. plots 1 List FILE commands \ Toggle to tree screen B Branch to DOS If the file contains several concatenated stand descriptions you can move around within the file to different stand descriptions using the plus [+n] and minus [-n] commands. Entering a plus with no arguments moves forward one stand description, while the command +12 moves ahead 12 stand descriptions (or to the last one in the file). You can use the branch command [B] to return to DOS while Entry is temporarily suspended. This allows you to run other programs, delete files, get a current directory list, etc. without having to exit the program and re-load your input file. To return to Entry from a branch, type EXIT at the DOS prompt. Entry will return to the working directory from which it started. To edit the tree records, enter a backslash [\]. This command toggles between tree and header record edit modes. TREE RECORDS The first line of the tree screen, shown below, contains the current plot label and file name. The file, plot, and tree index are shown at the bottom of the screen. The tree records are listed in the order that they were read in from the input file: The commands available in tree editing mode differ from those available in header mode in the following respects: (1) moving up and down through the tree list is permitted through use of the Up and Down keys. (2) the kill command [K] deletes the current tree record (highlighted on the screen), moving all following tree records up in the list. (3) the add command [A] adds tree records to the end of the tree list, and (4) the file command [F], used for opening more files to edit, is not available in tree edit mode. Note that the various commands denoted as upper case letters in the command list, can be entered as lower or upper case. The command list shows the EDIT commands when tree mode is first entered. File and utility commands can be viewed by entering a [2] at the command line. It is often necessary to see a list of species codes, especially when entering new trees. The applicable species codes can be displayed by typing a [3] at the COMMAND line. The edit commands can then be viewed again by typing a [1] at the COMMAND line. The screen displayed when the [2] and [3] commands are shown below: FILE COMMANDS S [name] Save file [as name] Q [name] Quit file [as name] Q! Quit file, no save X Exit to DOS, save all X! Exit to DOS, save none =n Move to file #n +n Move ahead n plots -n Move back n plots Dn Move ahead n trees Dn Move back n trees C Copy this plot to another open file 1 List EDIT commands 3 List Species codes \ Toggle to header scrn B Branch to DOS code species name 1 Pond. Pine 2 Sugar Pine 3 Cedar misc 4 DouglasFir 5 White Fir 6 Red Fir 7 L.P. Pine 8 White Pine 9 Jeff. Pine 10 Con. misc 11 Chinquapin 12 Black Oak 13 Tan Oak 14 H.W. misc Type 1 or 2 to see commands NOTE: The various commands denoted in upper case (E, A, B, K, etc.) in the above lists can also be entered in lower case (e, a, b, k, etc.)
