3.3

Dialog Commands
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sendform
sendform
Instructs the Tx link to transmit the full form text of each story, rather than just the story’s
form name. Applies to tx links.
source
source <queue name>
Specifies a queue that a distribution or keyword server should check each time it wakes up.
Each task in a job list for such a server must begin with a source line. Applies to the
distribution and keyword servers.
validate
validate <validation queue> <error queue>
Activates form field validation for a server. It must include the queue name containing the
validation story and an error queue for stories that cannot be validated. Applies to action
servers and tx links.
Dialog Commands
This section describes the dialog commands. Some of these commands are equivalent to
those available to a user during a connect session, while others are unique to dialogs.
Each command must begin on a new line and can be uppercase or lowercase. The system
does not check dialogs for errors.
Many of these commands take one or more strings as their parameters. These strings are text
and can be entered from the keyboard or, if you need to include characters not available from
your keyboard, use their aliases or decimal equivalents. This applies to nonprinting
characters, such as Escape and Enter, which are represented by <esc> and <cr> respectively.
Depending on which character set is used by the device to which you connect, you may need
to translate certain keyboard characters to characters understood by the device. You may also
need to translate some of the characters sent by the device to characters usable by your
system.