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Special Topics

Subprograms

Transact allows you to call other programs from within Transact. We have already seen an

example of calling a Report/V program from Transact. You can also call another Transact

Program, Inform report, or a program written in another language such as COBOL or

Pascal.

The CALL verb is used to call another Transact, Report/V, or Inform program. The PROC

verb is used to call a program written in another language.

Calling a Transact program is easily demonstrated by taking the example program listed

in Figure 8-9 and dividing it into a main program which does all the database access and a

subprogram that takes care of the array processing. The following two programs result.