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Using TCP/IP Services Management Commands

1.1 Entering Commands

Table 1–1 (Cont.) Management Command Guidelines

Element Guideline

Quotation marks In command lines, enclose the following in quotation marks:

• Lowercase and mixed-case names to be stored in a

database with the exact case preserved

• Directory and ﬁle speciﬁcations containing a slash (/)

• Uppercase options speciﬁed with UNIX commands

Consider these examples:

1. To specify a path, enclose it in quotation marks:

TCPIP> MAP "/usr/songbirds/canary" CANARY$DUA2:

2. To specify host names using lowercase letters when you

create a proxy entry in the database:

TCPIP> ADD PROXY COUSINS /GID=10 /UID=40 -

_TCPIP> /HOST=("raven","crow","rook","daw")

Note the use of the DCL command-line continuation

character ( - ) that allows you to continue a long command

on the next line.

3. To specify a lowercase host name when adding the host to

the hosts database, use these commands:

TCPIP> SET HOST "eaglet" /ADDRESS = 128.33.22.1

TCPIP> SHOW HOST EAGLET

Note that DCL interprets all input as uppercase unless

you enclose it in quotation marks. Therefore, you must use

quotation marks to enter the host name in lowercase in the

hosts database. To display information about a host, you

can enter either uppercase or lowercase characters.

4. When entering a lowercase or mixed-case service name in

a command, enclose it in quotations marks. For example:

TCPIP> SET SERVICE "hello" ...

5. When entering an option in uppercase in a UNIX

command, enclose the option in quotation marks. For

example:

TCPIP> sysconfig "-Q" inet

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