FILE

 

 

to send control characters for bells and in verse video. If y ou

 

attempt to send other con trol characters, however, blanks and

 

the associated con trol character letter ma y appear.

FORMID

Identi￿es a special form to be moun ted. This parameter only

 

applies to output spool ￿les. The parameter consists of a string

 

of up to eight alphanumeric characters, beginning with a letter,

 

that uniquely identi￿es the special form.

 

A message displa ying the formid prints on the console or

 

$STDLIST of the associated user of the spooled device. The

 

spooler process then w aits for v eri￿cation that the special

 

forms are mounted before printing the ￿le for whic h the formid

 

was speci￿ed.

NOCCTL or

Indicates whether or not y ou are specifying carriage-control

CCTL

characters. NOCCTL, the default, indicates that y ou are not

 

specifying carriage-control c haracters in writes to the ￿le. CCTL

 

indicates that you are specifying carriage-control c haracters in

 

writes to the ￿le.

Operation Notes

Usage

You can enter this command from a session, a job, a program, or in break mode. Pressing 4Break5 does not a￿ect this command.

Requirements

To use this command for a ￿le, y ou must specify a valid, formal ￿le designator, whic h is the name by which your program recognizes the ￿le. The formal ￿le designator enables commands and code outside y our program to reference the ￿le.

Command duration

The FILE command remains in e￿ect for the en tire job or session unless y ou cancel it by using the RESET command or you enter another FILE command for the same formal ￿le designator.

2-80 MPE/iX Commands