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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
TOOLSET/XL: About the Product
Purpose
TOOLSET/XL is designed to facilitate three core program development
activities: (1) coding, (2) compiling, and (3) debugging. All three
capabilities are available for use with COBOL and Pascal. In addition,
the debugging capability, Symbolic Debug, can be used with FORTRAN.
(Chapter 8 describes the steps used to run Symbolic Debug on FORTRAN
programs.)
Design Features
To serve these development activities, TOOLSET/XL has six key design
features.
The first three are general management and guidance features:
* The User Interface enables you to access and communicate with
TOOLSET/XL through the use of commands and function keys.
* The on-line Help Facility is an introduction to TOOLSET/XL. It can be
used as such or as a quick reference. The Help Facility contains
seven primary categories of information:
Softkeys (function keys)
Commands
Exec
Workspace
Edit
Program Translation
Debug
* The Workspace controls all of the files that are used in the
development of a single COBOL II or Pascal program:
Source files
Listing files
Object file
Program file
The coding specific features of TOOLSET/XL are the Editor and the Program
Translator:
* The Editor allows you to easily compose and modify your programs on
the terminal screen.
* The Program Translator does the Compilation and Preparation
activities for your program.
As the name indicates, Symbolic Debug is the debugging feature of
TOOLSET/XL.
* It allows you to interactively debug your program without knowing
memory locations or code addresses.