F28-8043 · June 1960

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F28-8043: General Information Manual — IBM Commercial Translator

IBM, June 1960. Scanned source: F28-8043_CommercialTranslatorGenInfMan_Ju60.pdf in this directory (124 PDF pages).

This is the language-level introduction to the Commercial Translator (COMTRAN): language structure, procedure statements, data description, and a complete worked payroll example.

File	Original pages	PDF pages
Front matter (cover, contents, preface)	—	1–6
Chapter 1: General Description of the Commercial Translator System	1–10	7–16
Chapter 2: The Structure of the Language	11–34	17–40
Chapter 3: Procedure Description	35–60	41–66
Chapter 4: Data Description	61–85	67–91
Appendix 1: Programming Example	87–104	92–109
Appendix 2: Supplementary Information	105–110	110–115
Appendix 3: Glossary	111–116	116–121
Index	117–118	122–124

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F28-8043: General Information Manual — IBM Commercial Translator

Contents

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Every page, in order

F28-8043: General Information Manual — IBM Commercial Translator (front matter)

Chapter 1: General Description of the Commercial Translator System

Chapter 2: The Structure of the Language

Chapter 3: Procedure Description

Chapter 4: Data Description

Appendix 1: Programming Example

Appendix 2: Supplementary Information

Appendix 3: Glossary

Index