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HOW TO USE SETUP COMMANDS
GETTING HELP FOR SETUP COMMANDS
The terminal can display a one-line help message for each Setup command
.
This
message can help you recall Setup command names and the kind of parameters
you need to
enter.
(The HELP message also gives the command 's opcode
,
which is
used for host syntax .)
The HELP command has several variations (the terminal must be in Setup)
:
•
You can ask for all help messages by entering just:
HELP
Since the complete help message is rather
lengthy,
you can use Ctrl-S to
temporarily stop scrolling of the help message, and Ctrl-Q to resume scrolling
.
•
If you want the help message for a specific Setup command, you can
either:
•
Enter
HELP
followed by the command name - for example
:
HELP FILLPATTERN
•
Enter enough characters to uniquely identify the command - for example
:
HELP
FIL
•
Most commands that share a similar function have the same first two
letters.
When you want help for all commands that begin with the same two
letters,
enter the HELP command followed by the first two letters of the commands -
for example:
HELP DA
This example would display the status of all dialog area commands
.
Other
combinations include
HG
for hard copy
commands,
SG
for segment
commands,
GI for graphics input commands, GT for graphtext commands
,
and PX for pixel
commands.
•
Cluster names identify specific categories of commands
.
To display messages
for these related commands, enter one of the cluster names that appear in the
complete help message. The cluster names are
:
•
ANSI
•
Pixels
•
Communications
•
Report/Input
•
Dialog
•
Segments
•
General
•
Surfaces
•
Graphics
•
Views
•
Hardcopy
•
2PPI
•
Keyboard
For
example,
to get help for all commands affecting the keyboard
,
you would
enter:
HELP KEYBOARD
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