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GETIING ACQUAINTED
Instead
of scrolling
,
you
can stop and start the listing on the screen by using
Ctrl-S
and
Ctrl-Q
after issuing
the
command.
Look
at the keyboard and find the
Ctr/
key.
(Remember,
to enter
Ctrl-S
or
Ctrl-Q,
press the Ctrl key and hold it down while you
press
the
Sor Q
key - this is similar to holding down Shift to enter a capital
letter.)
Then
:
Enter the STATUS command once again
; but,
after you press Return
,
quickly press Ctrl-S to halt the listing of the
commands.
Try it now:
STATUS
To restart the
display,
press Ctrl-Q
,
but be prepared to halt it once again
by quickly pressing
Ctrl-S.
Press Ctrl-Q to finish the display of text.
UNDERSTANDING THE STATUS MESSAGE
You 've been using the STATUS command to acquaint yourself
with
some of the
basic terminal
operations.
The STATUS command displays the current settings
of
all the commands that affect the terminal. Take a look at the list the terminal
displays when you issue a
STATUS
command
:
Ask the terminal for the status of the dialog
area:
STATUS DIALOG
Look at the screen and locate the DALIN ES command in the status list. Notice that
its setting is
32,
just as you set it in the last DALIN ES command
.
Any time you need
to check the current settings of the dialog
area,
you can use the STATUS DIALOG
command as you just did. There are many other
commands,
however,
whose
status you may want to check.
Ask for a status list of all Setup commands by entering
:
STATUS
Scroll through the list and note how the commands are grouped
together.
Getting Status for Specific Groups of Commands
While
you were scrolling through the status list you saw that the commands are
displayed
in groups
,
called
clusters.
You can get the status of all settings for a
specific
cluster by using the STATUS command with the cluster
name
as its
parameter. That
is what you did when you entered STATUS DIALOG earlier.
Most
commands
that share a similar function have the same first two letters. You
can also
get the
status of all these commands by
issuing
the first two letters as the
parameter.
For
example
,
if you want to know the status of all hard copy commands
,
you can use
HC
as
the
parameter.
Try that
now
by entering the following command
:
STATUS HC
You
'
ll find the
STATUS HC
command
useful for
checking
hard
copy
settings
before
you make
a
copy of the
screen
.
(Section 3
describes how
to make copies .)
4106/4107/4109
OPERATORS
2-7
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