SeeView Manual

HP NonStop SeeView Manual—526355-004
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1 Introduction
The SeeView product provides multiwindowed menu-driven interfaces, or shells, to HP
utilities for NonStop systems on HP 6500-series terminals and workstation emulators.
With the multiprocess SeeView environment, you can have several windows showing
the output of several programs simultaneously on your workstation. By taking
advantage of the memory inside your workstation, the SeeView product allows you to
have several different pages set up, each with its own set of windows.
The SeeView environment is interactive. You can alter the size and position of windows
to fit your needs or change the task whose output appears in a particular window. The
SeeView environment can also be menu driven. You can set up and use menus to
configure your windows and to interact with processes assigned to those windows. The
environment you set up can take many forms: a desktop, programmer's workbench,
operations interface, or a custom or standard environment to make your job easier.
You can create SeeView shells through a structured programming language that
SeeView provides. You can develop the shell programs, called scripts, interactively
with SeeView function key operations.
Standard SeeShell Interface
SeeView provides a ready-made, standard shell called the SeeShell. The standard
SeeShell interface provides menus that allow you to work with files, display
information, and run programs concurrently. You can display information and access
programs such as the HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL), the File
Utility Program (FUP), the Subsystem Command Facility (SCF), and PSMail.
Through menu selection, SeeShell lets you invoke other shells containing user-defined
menus and procedures written in the SeeView scripting language.
Section 2, Using SeeShell Menus, describes the general layout of the menus provided
by the standard SeeShell and explains how to access and interact with menus. The
standard environment is created the SeeShell program, which is usually found on the
same volume and subvolume as the SeeView product.
Starting the Standard SeeShell
To start the standard SeeShell, at the TACL prompt:
1> SEEVIEW / NAME /