TAL stands for Transaction Application Language. This programming language is used on Tandem computers under Guardian OS. If you use an ATM, you transaction will probably be processed by a TAL interface program or something else. Any way, I copied this examples exactly from the TAL Programmers's Guide: (I really dont like it very much....) ?NOLIST,SOURCE $SYSTEM.SYSTEM.EXTDECS (CLOSE, INITIALIZER OPEN,WRITE,MYTERM) ?LIST PROC myproc MAIN; BEGIN INT termname[0:11]; INT filename; STRING buffer [0:79]; CALL INITIALIZER; CALL MYTERM (termname); CALL OPEN (termname,filenum); CALL WRITE(filenum,"Hello World",12); CALL CLOSE(out_file_number); END; |