TRANSFER Programming Manual

An Overview of the TRANSFER Delivery System
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Figure 1-1. Information Delivery with the TRANSFER Delivery System
User D (Order Entry)
User C
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TRANSFER
User A
(Customer Service)
User B
Application
Printer
Application
User E
User F
(Manufacturing)
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Package 1
An application can have interactive communication with users or can have one process
interact with another process with no human intervention. An application can contain
programs written in various languages, all using the TRANSFER delivery system in
one way or another. For example, a PATHWAY requester written in the SCREEN
COBOL language can use the TRANSFER delivery system to transmit data to a
statistical application written in FORTRAN.