Topics:

• Entering TED
• TED Features
• Creating a File
• TYPE and EDIT Functions
• Accessing the HELP File
• Editing FOCEXECs
• Personalizing TED: PROFILE and PFnn
• Syntax Summary

TED is a general-purpose text editor you can use to create or edit files while in FOCUS.

These topics describe the four TED editing environments and their use for creating and modifying Master Files, requests, FOCEXECs, CRTFORMs, and non-FOCUS data sources. For information on creating and maintaining FOCUS data sources, refer to the Maintaining Databases manual.

For users familiar with mainframe editors, TED is similar to IBM's XEDIT and ISPF editors that run under CMS and TSO. While those editors can also be used from within FOCUS, TED provides important advantages:

• Moving or copying lines of data from one window to another using the split-screen facility.
• Screen Painter, which automatically generates data entry screens.

Note: TED supports editing of files with LRECL up to 160. To edit a file whose record length is longer than 160, use the IEDIT facility. For more information, see Invoking Your System Editor With IEDIT.