Compaq AA-Q88CE-TE manual Online Help, Introduction Entering Commands

Introduction

1.2 Entering Commands

or, when several commands are to be entered at the RTR prompt:

% rtr

RTR> start rtr RTR> create journal

Note

For convenience, the user prompt for the operating system is shown here as the ``%'' symbol. Your system may have a different prompt.

The RTR CLI accepts commands that you type and can process procedures consisting of RTR commands.

Most RTR commands accept qualifiers: these are indicated by the forward slash

(/)character. For example, many RTR commands accept the ``/OUTPUT'' qualifier; it directs the output from the command to a file.

The forward slash (/) character may also appear in the filenames of some operating systems; such filenames must be enclosed in quotation marks to ensure that RTR does not interpret the filename as a command qualifier.

When RTR commands are entered on a single line, you may need to use extra quotation characters, depending on the operating system in use. For example, when running on most UNIX platforms, additional single quotation marks are required when entering quoted items such as filenames. Compare the following commands.

% rtr

RTR> show facility/output="/usr/users/test/fac_output.lis"

% rtr show facility/output='"/usr/users/test/fac_output.lis"'

The first command works for OpenVMS systems but not on UNIX. The second command uses single quotation marks outside of double quotations to be correctly interpreted on UNIX systems.

1.3 Online Help

You can get information about the RTR CLI by using the HELP command. Entering the following command:

% rtr help

displays a complete list of help topics on your terminal.

If you require additional information then enter the topic directly on the same line, for example:

% rtr help show

The help command can also be used to find out about errors returned by RTR. The folowing sequence returns the error identifier:

% rtr help errors error-identification

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