TACL Reference Manual

Statements and Programs
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?SECTION Directive
== This output appears as "$<terminal name>"
#OUTPUT "[#MYTERM]"
If you load the preceding file and invoke this section, TACL produces this output when
#OUTFORMAT is set to PLAIN:
14> this^section
Using ?FORMAT PLAIN:
+------------------------+
| COMMENT [ <argument> ] |
+------------------------+
Using ?FORMAT QUOTED:
"+------------------------+"
"| COMMENT [ <argument> ] |"
"+------------------------+"
?FORMAT TACL, with quotes: "$LM1.#ZWN0009"
?FORMAT TACL, without quotes: $LM1.#ZWN0009
?FORMAT PLAIN, with quotes: "[#MYTERM"]
?FORMAT PLAIN, without quotes: [#MYTERM]
?FORMAT QUOTED, with quotes: "[#MYTERM]"
?FORMAT QUOTED, without quotes: $LM1.#ZWN0009
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?SECTION Directive
Use the ?SECTION directive to signal the beginning of a variable definition in a file.
This directive allows you to create a library that contains definitions for many variables.
The syntax of the directive is:
?SECTION variable-name variable-type
variable-name
specifies the name associated with the following lines of text. For information about
valid variable names, see Section 4, Variables.
variable-type
specifies the type of TACL variable: TEXT, ALIAS, MACRO, ROUTINE, STRUCT,
DIRECTORY, or DELTA.
Considerations
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To cause TACL to interpret or execute the contents of the file, use the LOAD
command or #LOAD built-in function to load the contents into memory. This