SeeView Manual

Using the SeeView Program
HP NonStop SeeView Manual—526355-004
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Sending Commands (Return, Shift-Return)
and then pressing Shift-Return. When you press Shift-Return, SeeView acts directly on
the command entered rather than sending it to any task associated with the current
window. The output from the command processed by SeeView appears in the current
window and is also saved in the cache associated with that window.
Moving to the End of the Line
Once your command is ready to submit, move the cursor to the end of the command
before you press Return. One quick way to move the cursor to the end of the text on a
sill is to press Control-Return. (Hold down the Control key while pressing Return). The
cursor moves directly to the end of the text on the current line. (This works when a
6530 or 6526 is in block mode, not just in the SeeView program.)
Moving Through the History Cache
When you press Return on a sill, the command you entered is sent to the task
assigned to the window whose sill the cursor is on. At this time, SeeView saves the
command into a command history cache so that you can later retrieve the command to
reexecute it (or edit the command and then resubmit it). To access this history cache,
place the cursor on the sill of a window and press F3 or F4 to scroll through the history
cache. F3 scrolls backwards, and F4 scrolls forward.
You can set the total size of the history cache when you start SeeView, the history
cache is shared between all your tasks. To jump directly to the oldest entry in the
history cache for a particular task, press SF3 with the cursor on the sill. To display the
most recent entry in the history cache for a task, press SF4.
The command history feature provides the equivalent of TACL FC (Fix command) and
HISTORY commands for all your tasks, not just those that support it.
Type Ahead
SeeView displays only the first window of text from a command even if that command
generated more lines of response than fit in a window. For example, a PPD command
to TACL almost always produces many lines of output. When you enter a PPD
command at a TACL window, only the first part of the response appears. You must
press NEXT PAGE to see more. You can start entering your next command at any time
without waiting for the PPD command to finish sending all of its lines to SeeView.
EOFSEEK
You can have the SeeView program automatically scroll ahead. You can enable this
feature, called automatic end-of-file seek, on a window-by-window basis. To enable
and disable it, press the Shift-Del Line function key. (This key may be difficult to find on
some emulators. It is equivalent to Ctrl-Del with PCT.) Once you turn on end-of-file
seek, SeeView displays a window of text, pauses for a short period, automatically
displays the next lines in cache appears, and repeats this behavior until the last line in
cache is displayed. To disable Eofseek at any time, press Shift-Del Line again.