A Summary of Commands

edExplain

Description

The edExplain command edits the explanation text for one or more message tags.

The following are environment variables for the edExplain command:

EDITOR

This is the program used to “edit” the explanation text. The default is vi.

EXPLAINDIR

This is the root directory of the explanation texts. The default is

/gendb/data/explain

VERBOSITY

If set to anything, edExplain will run verbosely.

An explanation file is basically a clear text file. Its contents are displayed “as is” to the user when this explanation is requested. If it is a primary explanation procedure (an explanation that the end user will want to reference by name), it should begin with a line of the form:

<< {tag} [{tag}...] >>

This identifies the explanation or procedure and all its alternate names as defined in the translation file $EXPLAINDIR/translateLst.

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