Texas Instruments 990 User Manual page 44

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A
?
response to a prompt causes a list of all valid responses to that prompt
hf
be displayed and the
prompt to be repeated. A
?
response is valid. in general. for any prompt that does not require a
number or a pathname as its response. When a question mark is entered in a command in condensed
format. the command format returns to the general format for the remainder of the command. The
following examples show the use of the question mark as a response.
General format:
COMMAND: RPN
OPTION: ?
ON OFF?
OPTION: option
General format:
COMMAND: ABORT
OPTION:
?
COM TASK ID?
OPTION: option
Condensed format:
COMMAND: RPN*'!-
ON OFF?
OPTION: option
Condensed format:
COMMAND: ABORT"'!*
. COM TASK ID?
OPTION: option
If
a blank is encountered in the operational portion of a response, the response is terminated at the
blank. This allows comments to be written on command records in command files. Blanks may
appear within a text string as the response to the PATHNAME: prompt of the Sor SS command.
These examples show responses containing blanks.
The following is an example of a blank entered in error.
General format:
COMMAND: RPRR L
••• INVALID INPUT
COMMAND:
Condensed format:
COMMAND: RPRRL• JOO•
••• INVALID INPUT
COMMAND:
The following example shows blanks within a text string (enclosed in angle brackets).
General format:
Condensed format:
COMMAND: S
COMMAND: S*<THIS IS TEXT>*
PATHNAME: <THIS JS TEXT>
PATHNAME: return
The following example uses blanks to allow comments to be written on the record.
COMMAND: S THIS IS THE SEND COMMAND
PATHNAME: .DIR.FILE THIS IS MY PATHNAME
PATHNAME: return
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