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Chapter 7 Commands
There are well over 200 commands built into the MPE/iX operating system.
Some are as simple as SHOWME. The SHOWME command requires only that you
enter its name at the prompt and press Return:
SHOWMEReturn
Others are more involved, and some of them are complex.
A "simple" command does one or two things and does not offer much
flexibility in its execution. A "complex" command may do one thing--or
many things. In addition, a complex command usually permits you to
specify in great detail exactly what the command will do and how it will
do it.
Some programs, such as HP Easytime/iX or EDIT/3000, automatically call
upon complex commands and permit you to accomplish what you want to do
without having to understand the command in all its complexity. The
EDIT/3000 program creates text files for you and gives you a way to
change these files as you need.
You may want to rely on HP Easytime/iX or other programs to do most of
your work on the computer. In some situations, however, no program will
accomplish precisely what you intend.
The commands built into MPE/iX provide tools to accomplish those ends
with almost any degree of that control that you might wish to exercise.