PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual
Expressions
11387 Tandem Computers Incorporated 5-7
SYS_DEVICETYPE This variable contains an integer, 0 or 1, that represents the type of output
device in use. TFORM determines this value either from a PARAM
DEVICE^TYPE command or from the actual device type specified in the
RUN TFORM command. Device type 1 indicates the 5530 letter-quality
printer; 0 indicates any other type of Tandem supported printer. (N)
SYS_FILECODE TFORM assigns to this variable the GUARDIAN 90 file code (101 for an
EDIT file, 102 for a T-TEXT file) of the current input file. (N)
SYS_FILEDATE This variable contains the date on which the current input file was last
modified, in the form MM/DD/YYYY. MM is the month number (1-12),
DD is the day number (1-31), and YYYY is the year. (S)
SYS_FILEERROR After each execution of a FILE command, TFORM stores the
GUARDIAN 90 file system error code for the auxiliary file operation
in this variable (0 means no error occurred). (N)
SYS_FILENAME This variable contains the GUARDIAN 90 file-name (in external form) of
the current input file. (S)
SYS_FILETIME This variable contains the time at which the current input file was last
modified, in the form HH:MM:SS. HH is the hour number (0-23), MM the
minutes (0-59), and SS the seconds (0-59). (S)
SYS_FORMLENGTH This variable contains the length, in decipoints, of the form in use. (N)
SYS_FORMWIDTH This variable contains the width, in decipoints, of the overall page use. (N)
SYS_HOURS This variable contains an integer, in the range of 0 through 23, that
represents the hour portion of the time of day at which you invoked
TFORM. (N)
SYS_INPUTLINENUM TFORM keeps the line number of the current source line in this variable. If
the input file is an EDIT file, this is the EDIT sequence number; otherwise,
this value is the number of lines read since TFORM opened the current
source file. (N)