ENFORM Reference Manual

?ASSIGN Command
Commands
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?ASSIGN Command The ?ASSIGN command associates a physical file with a dictionary record description
or a generic file. This command is functionally equivalent to the Command Interpreter
ASSIGN command. The syntax of the ?ASSIGN command is:
?ASSIGN
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{}
record-name
generic-file-name []
‚
TO
physical-filename
[ , create-open-spec ... ]
?ASSIGN record-name , { , create-open-spec } ...
record-name
is the name of a record description from a DDL dictionary.
generic-filename
is the name of one of the ENFORM generic files described in Section 2. A generic
file is used to store some class of ENFORM output. The following names are
allowed:
QUERY-COMPILER-LISTING
QUERY-REPORT-LISTING
QUERY-STATISTICS
QUERY-STATUS-MESSAGES
QUERY-WORK-AREA
QUERY-SORT-AREA
QUERY-QPSTATISTICS
QUERY-QPSTATUS-MESSAGES.
physical-filename
For record-name, physical-filename is the name of a physical file being associated
with the record description. TO must be specified if the file name is TO. A partial
file name is expanded using the default system, volume, and subvolume names.
For generic-file-name, physical-filename is the name of the physical device to which
you want ENFORM to direct output.