HP Integrity NonStop H-Series - Manual (Page 287)

Producing Form Letters
Using Special TFORM Features
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Producing Form Letters
Note If you use TEDIT, and you have worked through the TEDIT part of this manual, you learned
how to create form letters using SEARCH and REPLACE. This section discusses an
alternative way to produce form letters using the same text example.
In a form letter, most of the text is the same for every letter. TFORM inserts
items that change, such as names and addresses, into the letter at specific
points.
To produce form letters, you create two files. In one file, you enter the body
of the letter. In the second file, you put the unique information to be
inserted in only one letter. TFORM combines the information in the two
files to produce the form letters. This interaction is shown in Figure 11-14.