PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Introduction to TFORM
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FILE The FILE command lets you manipulate from one to eight auxiliary edit
files. You can read from a maximum of four files (reading from a name-
and-address file, for example, to produce customized form letters) and you
can write to a maximum of four files (writing out to a file you’ve created for
collecting index entries, for example).
What to Enter
\FILE
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OPEN file-name
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READ
WRITE
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APPEND
PURGE
READ { filename |*} var [‚ var ] ...
WRITE { filename |*} exp [‚ exp ] ...
CLOSE filename
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filename
is a valid GUARDIAN 90 filename belonging to a file that is either an
EDIT file (file-code 101) or a T-TEXT file (file-code 102). It can be from
one to eight alphanumeric characters, the first being alphabetic.
*
for FILE READ, translates as “the input lines immediately following
this command”; for FILE WRITE, translates as “directly to the output
device.”