By Leonard J. Bass, Ralph E. Bunker
Communications of the ACM,
December 1981,
Vol. 24 No. 12, Pages 796-800
10.1145/358800.358802
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A general method for using disk files (instead of a more conventional parameter-passing mechanism) to transfer control information from a user interface to a set of related applications programs is described. This technique effectively moves much of the user interface, including command decoding and limited parameter checking, from the applications programs to a table-driven executive.
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