The Generic Audit File Specification documents the file naming convention and record structure for audit data files created by XStudio, DCS and Maestro audio delivery systems.
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This specification was originally published by Computer Concepts Corporation, Lenexa, KS in 1989 and updated to version 1.6 in October 1992. The specification was released to all interested parties, including traffic system vendors and music scheduling system vendors. This document (the one you are reading) is referred to as: dcsTools Audit File Specification Version 1.7 (Updated 12/17/2012) It updates version 1.6 of the specification published by Computer Concepts Corporation, including later additions to audit transaction types and status codes, along with items unique to dcsTools products. |
Audit File Name
Audit files are named in such a way as to provide for one unique file for each day of each year for each station. This allows usage of a single file folder location all stations in a multi-station environment.
Audit file names have the form MMDDYYxx.ADT, where:
MM |
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Month (01-12) |
DD |
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Day (01-31) |
YY |
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Year (00-99) |
xx |
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Station Number (any 2 characters in 0..9, A..Z) |
.ADT |
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The audit file extension |
Audit File Structure
The audit file data is stored in binary format as a group of records. Each record has a fixed length segment followed by a fixed number of variable length fields.
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Where possible, descriptive names that match the originally-published specification have been retained. New types added use naming conventions similar to the original documentation. |
