Tandem utilities
Douglas Flowers
facility that uses a Tandem midrange computer. I am trying to learn to use
the Editor, Enform and TACL but the IS department doesn't have all the manuals
on these utilities (it's all in their heads). Are there any after-market books
about the Tandem OS and its utilities ?
Thanks,
Doug Flowers
ra...@goodnet.com
m3ki...@ccnet.com
>Thanks,
>Doug Flowers
>ra...@goodnet.com
Hi, Doug.
Tandem and third-party docs don't belong in the same sentence.
Tandem manuals are available, from Tandem, on CD-ROM. Ask your co-workers
for a copy of CD-Read or TIM (Tandem Information Manager); otherwise,
you'll be one frustrated guy.
Welcome to the fold. I believe you will find fault tolerance and parallel
processing to be cool.
Gary
Change m3 to mc
Steve Murphy
That may be so, but the editor most definitely isn't.
Don't bother to learn the editor, familiarize yourself with FTP and get a copy of
one of the programming editors around.
Some of these are
codewrite
multiedit
ed4w - evaluation from http://www.getsoft.com
ed4w is favored as the editor functions are written in a variant of C so you can
change the editor yourself.
There is also the development suite
http://www.tandem.com/backgrnd/borlcpov/borlcpov.htm
Tedit has an interesting feature, when inserting text into a line the character
that disappear from the screen also disappear from the file - I guess its unrivaled
in that sense.
Ingo Jobling
There is virtually no third party documentation available. Ask your IS
department about obtaining TIM or CD-READ (Tandem documentation on CD).
As a last resort, you can get some online help for Tandem utilities
TEDIT: Press the F1 function key to get the command line, then type "HELP
HELP" for a list of topics. TEDIT has fairly decent online help, with
syntax as well as text descriptions.
ENFORM Type "?HELP" at the ENFORM command prompt.
Quite basic, but better than nothing if you are attempting to understand
an existing ENFORM.
TACL Type "HELP" at the TACL command prompt.
You only get one page of help for TACL, and this page basically says that
there is no online help. This page directs you to read the documentation
(as though you need HELP for that!)
SQLCI Type "HELP;" at the SQLCI command prompt.
The SQLCI help is quite complete.
I remember learning Tandem in the bad old days of missing and out-of-date
manuals (shudder). In addition, Tandem systems have lots of "legacy" and
are not very user-friendly, so the initial learning experience can be
somewhat daunting. The flip side of the coin is that Tandem professionals
are usually in demand and well paid.
Good luck!
Ingo
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Steve Murphy <nos...@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>m3ki...@ccnet.com wrote:
>
>> Douglas Flowers <ra...@goodnet.com> typed:
>> >Just secured an entry-level COBOL programming job in a large manufacturing
>> >facility that uses a Tandem midrange computer. I am trying to learn to use
>> >the Editor, Enform and TACL but the IS department doesn't have all the manuals
>> >on these utilities (it's all in their heads). Are there any after-market books
>> >about the Tandem OS and its utilities ?
>>
>> >Thanks,
>>
>> >Doug Flowers
>> >ra...@goodnet.com
>>
>> Hi, Doug.
>>
>> Tandem and third-party docs don't belong in the same sentence.
>>
>> Tandem manuals are available, from Tandem, on CD-ROM. Ask your co-workers
>> for a copy of CD-Read or TIM (Tandem Information Manager); otherwise,
>> you'll be one frustrated guy.
>>
>> Welcome to the fold. I believe you will find fault tolerance and parallel
>> processing to be cool.
>>
>
>That may be so, but the editor most definitely isn't.
>
>Don't bother to learn the editor, familiarize yourself with FTP and get a copy of
>one of the programming editors around.
>
>Some of these are
>codewrite
>multiedit
>ed4w - evaluation from http://www.getsoft.com
>
>ed4w is favored as the editor functions are written in a variant of C so you can
>change the editor yourself.
>
>There is also the development suite
>http://www.tandem.com/backgrnd/borlcpov/borlcpov.htm
>
>Tedit has an interesting feature, when inserting text into a line the character
>that disappear from the screen also disappear from the file - I guess its unrivaled
>in that sense.
>
>
>
>>
>> Gary
>> Change m3 to mc
>
>
>
>
Awan Nagan
aw...@soy.toy
Ron Bowden
If you are interested in a new editor, we have X-Windows that runs on the
Tandem and has a nice editor that is easy to use. You can try it out
immediatey.
For info goto http://www.bsi.com/
Ron B.
In article <36372B15...@nospam.nospam>, Steve Murphy
Ronald Martin
[snip]
>Tedit has an interesting feature, when inserting text into a line the
character
>that disappear from the screen also disappear from the file - I guess its
unrivaled
>in that sense.
>
you don't lose
characters (or have spaces inserted in the case of deleteing characters).
I changed LINE INS to do INSCHAR and LINE DEL to do DELCHAR and saved the
changes in TEDPROFL.
James Volstad
No No No!....Edit 4 ever... :-)
Jim Volstad
Tandem Consultant
http://home.earthlink.net/~jvolstad
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Tomas Turbado
Edit?
No, NO, No! TEDIT at least for a time.. ;-)
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Fred S.
wrote:
>If you are a novice in Tandem
>
>Edit?
>
>No, NO, No! TEDIT at least for a time.. ;-)
>
Or if you're a compromiser - Tedit with XVS function keys :)
David Calderon
anytime...Though I still like Edit to do the quickie text manipulation
things now and then..
Michael Zerger
TNS1? I remember it as going from TNS to TNSII.
Erica Nielsen Killins
Or if you're a dual-mode person - use Edit and access Tedit
from within Edit whenever necessary.... :-)
Dale Powers
NSK. Try doing that with TEDIT. For full-screen work though I like TEDIT
far better than XVS, especially since I spent my formative years using the
editors provided with IBM's ISPF.
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David Calderon wrote in message <363D1848...@bellsouth.net>...
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>David,
>TNS1? I remember it as going from TNS to TNSII.
>
>David Calderon wrote:
>>
David Oddie
>>David,
>>TNS1? I remember it as going from TNS to TNSII.
>>
I think they started calling TNS the TNS 1 when TNSII came out.
Then there was the TNS 1+ which seemed like a way of selling off the
last few TNS 1 processors to me.
I remember a client upgrading to a five CPU TNS 1+ system.
Don't ask me what the difference between a "1" and a "1+" was, I can't
remember.
Dave
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