COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs
About This Manual
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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Manuals to Which This Manual Refers
Open System Services Shell and Utilities 
Reference Manual
Describes the syntax and semantics of 
each command that you can enter 
interactively to access the OSS 
command interpreter (the OSS shell), 
and utilities and other functions that 
perform general-purpose and program-
development operations (intended for all 
audiences)
Open System Services System Calls Reference 
Manual
Describes all OSS system calls (file 
system and kernel functions), their 
syntax, required external data structures, 
resulting operations, and source file 
(header) locations for all literals and 
symbolic definitions (intended for system 
and application programmers)
Pathway/TS SCREEN COBOL Reference 
Manual
Describes the SCREEN COBOL 
language (HP COBOL is often used to 
implement servers that works with 
SCREEN COBOL (TCP) requesters to 
make up a Pathway/TS application)
Pathway/TS TCP and Terminal Programming 
Guide
Explains how to write SCREEN COBOL 
requesters in the Pathway environment
PS TEXT EDIT and PS TEXT FORMAT User’s 
Guide
Explains how to create and modify 
source files
PS TEXT EDIT Reference Manual Describes the PS TEXT EDIT editor, 
which you can use to create and modify 
source files
pTAL Conversion Guide Explains how to convert TAL programs to 
pTAL, which you must do to any TAL 
programs that your TNS/R HP COBOL 
programs call
pTAL Reference Manual Describes the pTAL language, one of the 
TNS/R languages in which you can 
rewrite FORTRAN or Pascal programs 
that you want your TNS/R HP COBOL 
programs to call
SCF Reference Manual for the Kernel 
Subsystem
Describes the Subsystem Control Facility 
(SCF), whose user interface you can use 
to control tracing (see Misalignment 
Tracing Facility).
Spooler Programmer’s Guide Explains how to use the spooler utility 
that collects and routes printer output
Table i. HP Manuals to Which This Manual Refers (page 4 of 6)
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