TAL Programmer's Guide

Compiling Source files
Compiling Programs
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In an unstructured disk file, each record has 132 characters; partial lines are filled with
blanks through column 132. You can specify a file name or a TACL DEFINE name.
The file must exist before you specify its name for the OUT file. You can create the file
by using the File Utility Program (FUP).
The following example specifies a file named MYLIST as the OUT file:
TAL /IN mysource, OUT mylist/ myobject
The OUT file is often a spooler location, in this case, $S.#LISTS:
TAL /IN mysource, OUT $s.#lists/ myobject
If you specify OUT with no file, you suppress the listings:
TAL /IN mysource, OUT/ myobject
If you omit OUT and the TACL product is in interactive mode, the listings go to the
home terminal. In noninteractive mode, the listings go to the current TACL OUT file:
TAL /IN mysource/ myobject
TACL Run Options
You can include one or more TACL run options in the compilation command, such as:
A process name
A CPU number
A priority level
The NOWAIT option
For example, you can specify CPU 3 and NOWAIT when you run the compiler:
TAL /IN mysource, CPU 3, NOWAIT/ myobject
Another run option you can specify is the MEM (memory) option, but the compiler
always uses 64 pages. For information on all the TACL run options, see the RUN
command in the TACL Reference Manual.