	FSALEN.HLP   USER INSTRUCTIONS FOR FINDING THE LENGTH OF FSA FILES

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WRITTEN BY:  SHERMAN TODD, DOUGLAS BOHRER
             PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT, THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO
             1 FIRST NATIONAL PLAZA, 22ND FLOOR
             CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60670

DATE:        24-APRIL-81

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	This is the user's guide for the FSALEN program.  This guide gives
step-by-step instructions and useful hints for operating FSALEN.  The format
is to print, in the order in which they might appear, the system prompts to
the user and then list what the responses might mean.

	To start an installed FASLEN program from monitor mode, the user
would simply  type: 

                              RUN FSALEN

	The system prompts will appear in all capital letters, while comments
will appear in the lower case form:

 1.  INPUT FILE NAME?

	This requests the name of the fortran sequential ascii(fsa) input
	file whose length the user wishes to determine.  Simply type out
	the name of the file in the form:  dev:filename.ext.  The syntax
	is checked by the system as it tries to open the input file.
	Therefore, a system error will occur if a bad specification is 
	detected.

 2.  INPUT RECORD LENGTH?

	This requests the maximum number of characters any record in the
	file is expected to have.  Any record size entry from 1 to 512
	will be excepted by FSALEN.  Record size entries above 512, however,
	will result in an error.

 3.  OUTPUT FILE NAME?

	This requests the name of the output file that will contain the
	value for the number of records in the input file.

