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Contents of the showfile
When you write to diskette, everything that you programmed into your
show and everything that you set in the console to make that show
happen are stored in a single showfile. Show and configuration
information, however, may be read separately from the showfile. 29
The System Configuration contents of the showfile are defined as all
those things you set in the console that commonly remain the same for
all shows. Show contents of the showfile contain certain other settings,
such as changes in defaults that are likely to be set for a specific show,
and all those programmed elements of the show that directly control the
lights, including the patching, cues and dimmer settings. A complete
accounting of showfile contents, broken down into Show and System
Configuration components, is given in Appendix D Showfile, page 359.
Writing to diskette
Write a showfile to diskette with the following procedure. 30
Keystrokes:
1. Insert a formatted diskette
in disk drive.
Action:
2. Press [Setup]. Selects Setup display
3. Press [3], Disk Functions,
[Enter].
4. Press [1], Write All to
Disk, [Enter].
5. Press [Enter], or press
[Clear] to cancel the
operation.
Selects Diskette Functions menu
Screen clears and Record window
appears
Message in record window appears
and remains until show is recorded:
To disk in progress.
29.
30.
System configuration information was not saved on diskette for
shows recorded prior to version 3.03 software.
When writing, any fades executing at that time are interrupted. These
fades resume when writing to diskette is complete.
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