SeeView Manual

Using the SeeView Program
HP NonStop SeeView Manual—526355-004
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Responding to Prompts
Communicating With the SeeView Program
You might sometimes want to send a command directly to SeeView without moving the
cursor to a free window. Enter the command to SeeView on any sill (even if the window
is assigned to a task) and then press 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.
For example, if you move the cursor to a TACL window, enter HELP, and press Return,
you see the output of a TACL HELP command in the window. Now enter HELP again
(or move the cursor to the end of the HELP command already on the sill) and press
Shift-Return. Some SeeView HELP text appears in the TACL window. Scroll through
the text in the window, and you will see that the output from both HELP commands is
now in the TACL cache.
You can enter any SeeView command (such as OPEN or STATUS) at any sill in this
manner. Press Shift-Return to send the command to SeeView instead of the task
assigned to the window.
Responding to Prompts
When you select certain menu items in SeeShell, a prompt appears, on the screen.
When a prompt appears, it can include a default command. For example, this
illustration shows a prompt with a default command for a tape backup operation:
To respond to the prompt, either:
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Accept the default by pressing Return
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Edit the text in the prompt as necessary and then press Return
You edit the text in a prompt in the same way as text on a window sill. For a prompt,
however, pressing Return enters the entire input field, not just the characters up to the
cursor position.