Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+)

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WRITE[X] Procedures
Syntax for TAL Programmers
Parameters
filenum input
INT:value (Use with WRITE and WRITEX)
is the number of an open file that identifies the file to be written.
buffer input
INT:ref:* (Use with WRITE)
STRING .EXT:ref:* (Use with WRITEX)
is an array containing the information to be written to the file.
write-count input
INT:value (Use with WRITE and WRITEX)
is the number of bytes to be written:
{0:57344} for disk files (see
Disk File Considerations on page 16-8 and
Appendix J, System Limits)
{0:32755} for terminal files
{0:57344} for other nondisk files (device-dependent)
{0:57344} for interprocess files
{0:80} for the operator console
For key-sequenced and relative files, 0 is invalid. For entry-sequenced files, 0
indicates an empty record.
count-written output
INT:ref:1 (Use with WRITE)
INT .EXT:ref:1 (Use with WRITEX)
is for wait I/O only.
count-written returns a count of the number of bytes
written to the file.
CALL WRITE[X] ( filenum ! i
,buffer ! i
,write-count ! i
,[ count-written ] ! o
,[ tag ] ); ! i