Getting Started with TRANSACT (32247-90007)

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1 Getting Started
This document is designed to give the novice Transact user a easy-to-use starting point
from which to quickly gain an understanding of the language. Beginning with a simple
three-line program to display the data in a dataset, we move on to introduce many of the
important concepts of Transact, always with simple, yet complete, programs.
Later sections point up some of the ways Transact can be most beneficially used to increase
programming efficiency.
The examples throughout this guide are all based on a single Image database, three MPE
data files, and a single VPLUS forms file. In other words, they represent a mini working
environment.
The database, files, and forms file have all be described in Dictionary/V. The appendices
provide complete examples of how to use the dictionary to describe the database, forms,
and files used throughout the guide.