TACL Reference Manual

The TACL Environment

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Default Files

Instead of using your saved defaults, a background TACL takes on the same file-name

defaults as those of the process that started it. This procedure occurs as follows:

1. TACL saves the inherited defaults in the variable

:UTILS_GLOBALS:TACL:_DEFAULTS_INITIAL and switches to your saved

defaults (saved under your user ID on the system where the background TACL is

running). TACL saves a copy of those defaults in the variable

:UTILS_GLOBALS:TACL:_DEFAULTS_SAVED.

2. TACL invokes the specified TACLCSTM file (if any) in the same way and with the

same defaults as if you logged on explicitly. To specify a TACLCSTM file, use the

ASSIGN command in the process that starts the background TACL:

ASSIGN TACLCSTM, file-name

If file-name is not fully qualified, ASSIGN assumes the defaults in existence for

the process that issued the ASSIGN command (not the process receiving it).

To omit the TACLCSTM file, enter this; the comma indicates the absence of the

file-name field:

ASSIGN TACLCSTM,

If you do not issue an ASSIGN TACLCSTM command, the background TACL uses

your current TACLCSTM file by default.

3. After it has invoked TACLCSTM, TACL sets the defaults to the value in the

variable :UTILS_GLOBALS:TACL:_DEFAULTS_INITIAL. If you need to establish a

particular set of initial defaults, your TACLCSTM should contain coding to set

:UTILS_GLOBALS:TACL:_DEFAULTS_INITIAL accordingly.

You can read the variables in the directory :UTILS_GLOBALS (and its subdirectories),

but do not change them, except as directed in application-product documentation.