Measure Reference Manual

Table 1 MEASCOM Commands (continued)
PageFunctionCommand
133Select a default volume.VOLUME
133Selectively display or suppress warning messages.WARNINGS
134Reexecute a command.! (Exclamatory Symbol)
General Information About Using MEASCOM
Syntax Conventions for MEASCOM Commands
Multiple Commands on a Line
A MEASCOM command line can contain more than one command. Use a semicolon (;) to separate
multiple commands.
Multiline Commands
To continue a command to the next line, end the line with an ampersand (&). MEASCOM displays
a continuation prompt (also an ampersand) on the next line. Text you enter on that next line is
treated as part of the preceding command. Each line can contain up to 132 characters. You can
continue a command over several lines, up to a total of 1100 characters.
Comments Within a Command
To embed comments in a command, put a blank, two hyphens, and a blank ( -- ) before and after
the comment. (Blanks are recommended but not required. They prevent problems because hyphens
are valid in user-defined names.) The end of a line also ends any comment ahead of it.
Command Prompts and Display
MEASCOM displays a plus sign (+) prompt when it is ready to accept a new command or an
ampersand (&) when it is ready for you to continue a command from the preceding line. The
prompts distinguish between lines that you enter and lines that MEASCOM generates (lines without
prompts).
The LIST commands generate several reports in succession, pausing between each to let you
examine the report. A double prompt (++) indicates that another report follows. To display the
next report, press the Return key. To skip any remaining reports and return to the input prompt,
press Ctrl-Y (the BREAK key sequence, which is also available from the BREAK key on some
keyboards).
Some Measure online help displays use the double prompt (++) to indicate that more information
is available. Again, press Return to display the next screen, or press Ctrl-Y to return to command
entry.
In Measure G09 and later PVUs, you have some control over the scrolling of Measure entity reports
on your screen. The PAGESIZE command on page 102 lets you declare the number of lines to
display before another prompt is issued. The presence of OSS file pathnames in the displays makes
the report formats variable in length. To prevent information from scrolling from a display before
it can be read, use PAGESIZE to directly control the output length.
Disk File Names
To designate a disk file, you can use any of these forms:
filename
subvolume.filename
$volume.subvolume.filename
$volume.#filenum
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