HP UX SNAplus2 manual Uppercase Characters and Escape Characters, Commandtext

Managing SNAplus2 from NetView

Using the Host NetView Program

node

The SNAplus2 node associated with the service point name spname (for SPCF commands)

unix

The UCF daemon program running on the SNAplus2 computer associated with the service point name spname (for UCF commands)

commandtext

Supplies the text of the command being issued. For SPCF, this is a command issued to the SNAplus2 command-line administration program. For UCF, it is a command for the HP-UX operating system. For more information about the commands that can be used, see “Restrictions on Administration Commands Used with SPCF” or “Permitted Commands”.

Uppercase Characters and Escape Characters

Although HP-UX distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase alphabetic characters, the NetView program does not. Instead, it translates all characters into uppercase before sending them to the HP-UX computer. Also, the host character set may not support the square bracket characters [ and ], which are required in some commands.

RCF provides support for uppercase characters and square bracket characters using the backslash character \, as follows:

•To include an uppercase character in the command string, include a backslash character before it. Any alphabetic character not preceded by a backslash is interpreted as lowercase.

•To include the square bracket characters [ and ], use the sequences \( and \), respectively.

•To include the backslash character \ itself, type it twice.

If a single backslash is followed by any other nonalphabetic character, the backslash is ignored and the character is left unchanged.

Some examples are shown in Table 10-1, “Using Escape Characters in RCF Commands.”

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