@ designates characters that are part of a playlist name that is created by external software. The @ symbol is used in conjunction with month, day, and year placeholders to insert current month, day, and year data into playlist names.
Example: @M@D@Y.dbf on July 13, 2000 represents a playlist called 071300.dbf.
* ? wild card characters used by rules. Used identically as in DOS.
Examples: *.dbf or KGON????.dbf
Critical files data files specific to your facility's DAD configuration.
Examples: configuration files, security files, user setup files
Destination the place to which files are going.
Gateway ENCO Systems software package that runs on a dedicated PC and automates routine file transfers from one facility to another according to a schedule that you specify. Gateway comes with one transporter but can utilize up to 15 transporters (optionally available).
Mask file name and extension with variables (wild card characters) for use by rules when transferring playlists that may have changing strings in them.
Example: TEST???? will look at any new playlist that looks like TEST with exactly 4 characters after it (like TEST1210, or TEST1131, but not TEST44).
Queue a listing of jobs for Gateway to complete. Three queues, low, medium, and high priority, exist in Gateway.
Scanner the internal component of Gateway that evaluates rules and places them in the correct queue to be completed.
Rule a specification for data transfer by Gateway.
Transporter a device internal to Gateway that moves files. One transporter moves one file at a time. Gateway comes with one transporter and up to 14 additional transporters can be purchased. Each transporter can be set as low, medium, or high priority in order to use or reserve network bandwidth.
UNC Universal Naming Convention. Defines a path to a storage device from across a network in the format \\host\service\path. Example: \\wyyy\vol1: