FILE RECORD MAINTENANCE IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM BY SYNCHRONIZATION OF MENUS WITH CORRESPONDING DATA FILES

A program allows a user to know instantly which data files have not been updated, which data files or menu items may have been incorrectly named and which data files have no corresponding references on the menus. The program matches a series of menus for an application program to the actual files on a disk to see if there are menu items with no data files and to see if there are data files with no corresponding menu items. The output is a list of menus with missing data files and a list of data files with missing menu items. The program will accept as arguments the first "N" number of characters of a list of menu items and the disk where the data files reside. The system identifies all menus that have the identified "N" characters and will read all of the data files on the indicated disk and match the menus data files with the data files on the disk.