PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Introduction to TFORM
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Running TFORM Once you have completed your document and added all your TFORM
commands, you are ready to run TFORM and print your document. You
start TFORM with an implied RUN command from your command
interpreter, specifying your document file as the input file and a print
location as the output file. TFORM processes the input file, creates the
formatted output file, and sends it to the specified print location. (You can,
if you wish, send the formatted document to another edit-format file for
viewing.) TFORM never changes the source file when operating in the
stand-alone mode.
Using RUN The syntax of the standard RUN command you use from your command
interpreter to start TFORM is presented on the next page. If you want you
can also include standard RUN command options, such as PRI or
NOWAIT, between the slashes. (For more information on using the
RUN command, see the Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL)
Reference Manual, Volumes 1 and 2.
The following examples of the RUN commands are considered TFORM
invocations; that is, you are “invoking TFORM” from your command
interpreter and you do not need to include the keyword RUN. Notice in the
following examples that you can add comments or TFORM commands after
the second slash:
TFORM /IN NEWSLETR.AUGISSUE, OUT $S.#LQP, NOWAIT/ Check breaks
TFORM /IN COSTMEMO, OUT $LP5/\SET SEQUENCING ON; PRINT PAGE 1
TFORM /IN $DATA3.LETTERS.ACME0624, $S.#HOLD/