Compaq AA-Q88CE-TE manual Table A-3 Arithmetic Operators in Display Commands

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A.3 Arithmetic Expressions and Operators

Table A–3 Arithmetic Operators in Display Commands

Characters	Meaning
-	Minus
+	Plus
*	Multiply
/	Divide
&	Logical AND
	Logical OR
<=	Less than or equal
>=	Greater than or equal
!=	Not equal
<>	Not equal
<	Less than
>	Greater than
=	Equal

Example A–2 shows how these operators are used.

Example A–2 Arithmetic Operators Examples

RTR> DISPLAY NUMERIC		RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM+2	1
RTR> MONITOR
RTR>	DISPLAY NUMERIC	RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM
_RTR> /SELECT="RTR_SOME_OTHER_DATA_ITEM>42"			2
RTR>	MONITOR

RTR> DISPLAY NUMERIC RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM

_RTR> /SELECT="RTR_SOME_OTHER_DATA_ITEM>42" - _RTR> /BOLD="RTR_SOME_OTHER_DATA_ITEM>84" -

_RTR> /UNDERLINE="RTR_SOME_OTHER_DATA_ITEM>=1952" 3

RTR> MONITOR

RTR> DISPLAY SYMBOLIC RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM "zero","one" -

_RTR> "two","three","four,"five","six"/BLINK 4

1Two is added to the value of RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM before displaying it.

2RTR_SOME_DATA ITEM is only displayed if RTR_SOME_OTHER_DATA_ ITEM is greater than 42.

3Same as the one above, but displayed in bold if RTR_SOME_OTHER_DATA_ ITEM is greater than 84, and underlined if its greater than 1952.

4The value of RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM is displayed in text form if it is less than six, otherwise it is displayed as a numeric.

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