Introduction to TAL Programming, Part 1

Structure of a TAL Program
Basic Rules of TAL Syntax
Some Commonly Used TAL Syntax
Some Commonly Used TAL Procedures
TAL:

• Comments
• Begin/ End Pairs
• Variables
• External Procedures
• Integers
• Global Variables
• Local Variables
• Assign Statement
• Arithmetic Operations
• Myterm
• Open Procedure
• Write Procedure
• Read Procedure
• If Then Else Statement
• Stop Procedure

Compiling a Program

Introduction to TAL Programming, Part 2

String Variables
Layout of a TAL Program
TAL – Structs, Substructs
TAL – STARTUP message
$RECEIVE file
One Way Interprocess Communication - the Caller, the Receiver

Introduction to TAL Programming, Part 3

Two Way Interprocess Communication

• The Requester
• Replying, the Server

TAL Error Processing on File Operations

• DEBUG
• FILEINFO

Types of Disk Files

• Entry Sequenced Files
• Key Sequenced Files
• Key Position Procedure
• Relative Files
• Structured Files
• Partitioned Files

Equivalencing
Direct and Indirect Variables
DEFINE