14.19.2 Format of parameter file

You can write multiple tags in a parameter file. The following figure shows the format of the parameter file.

Figure 14‒5: Format of parameter file

A tag consists of multiple statements. A statement consists of a parameter indicating setting information written on the left side, and a corresponding setting written on the right side.

Rules and notes on creating a parameter file are as follows:

• Only one statement can be written on a line.

• One statement must not be written over multiple lines.

• Characters { and } are handled as data-separating characters, and, therefore, must not be used for other purposes.

• One line must not exceed 4,096 bytes.

• A comment must begin with an asterisk (*). Null lines and lines containing only comments are ignored.

• A tag name must consist of uppercase alphabetic characters and underscore (_). A parameter name must consist of lowercase alphabetic characters and underscore (_).

• Necessary tags can be written in random order in a parameter file. Note, however, that writing two or more tags of the same name in a parameter file causes a file format error (indicated by the return code 1).

• You cannot specify the JOB_DESTINATION tag together with the JOB_DESTINATION_ID tag.

• Only Shift-JIS character encoding is supported. If characters other than the Shift-JIS range are used, they might be garbled.

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