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Getting Started With TRANSACT V

Chapter 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 formsfile 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.

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