RDF System Management Manual

Operating and Monitoring RDF
HP NonStop RDF System Management Manual—524388-003
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Command Syntax for Starting an RDFCOM Session
Command Syntax for Starting an RDFCOM Session
To enter an RDFCOM session, use the following general command syntax. The
specific parameters you enter depend, of course, on the options you desire.
RDFCOM
is an implicit RUN command, instructing the TACL command interpreter to run the
RDFCOM utility program.
IN command-file
specifies a command file from which RDFCOM commands are to be read.
RDFCOM reads 132-byte records from the specified file until it encounters either
the end-of-file mark or an EXIT command.
If you do not specify the IN option, TACL automatically supplies the name of its
current default input file—usually the terminal from which you issued the RDFCOM
command.
OUT output-file
specifies a file to which all output (other than prompts for entering RDFCOM
commands) is to be written. This file might receive listings requested by INFO,
SHOW, and STATUS commands, for example. It might also receive RDFCOM
commands generated by the OBEYFORM option of the INFO command.
If you do not specify the OUT option, TACL supplies the name of its current default
output destination—usually the terminal from which you issued the RDFCOM
command.
If you specify a disk file that does not exist, an EDIT file (file code 101) having the
name you specified is automatically created, and RDFCOM output is directed to it.
If you specify a disk file that exists, this must be an EDIT file (file code 101);
RDFCOM output is appended to that file. If you omit the volume or subvolume
portions of the file name specifier, the default is your current volume or subvolume,
respectively.
control-subvolume
is the name of the RDF control subvolume on $SYSTEM on the primary and
backup systems, as well as the subvolume on the image trail volumes on the
backup system in which the image trail files reside.
The control subvolume name is the same as the name of the primary system
without the backslash (and with a one-character suffix appended to it, if you
included the suffix in the INITIALIZE RDF command).
RDFCOM [/[IN command-file ] [,OUT output-file ]/ ]
[control-subvolume] ; [command [; command ]... ]