HP 3000 Manuals

COBOL/HP-UX Operating Guide for the Series 700 and 800

Specifying Animator Directives 

You can use directives when Animator is invoked to modify its behavior.

You specify directives after the program-name on the command line before
pressing Enter to begin animation, or in the cobol.dir file.  The format
for specifying directives is given here; descriptions of the directives
available are provided in Appendix F , Directives for Animator.

Use the following format for directives:

[no]keyword"parameter"

where:

no                   turns keyword off.no can either adjoin the keyword
                     or be separated from it by one or more spaces.  no
                     applies to only certain directives as indicated in
                     the directive's description

keyword              is one or more of the Compiler directives
                     described in Appendix G , Directives for 
                     Compiler/Generator.  If you do specify more than one
                     directive, they must all be enclosed within
                     quotation marks.  This is necessary to inform UNIX
                     that all the directives within them are grouped
                     together.  If you omit the quotation marks, second
                     and subsequent directives are ignored although no
                     warning to this effect is given

"parameter"          is a qualifier to keyword and applies to only
                     certain directives where specified in their
                     description in Appendix F , Directives for 
                     Animator.  It must appear in one of the following
                     formats:

                     "parameter"

                     or

                     =parameter

                     or

                     (parameter)

                     and must adjoin keyword.  You must not include any
                     spaces within an Animator option because UNIX treats
                     the space character as an option delimiter, so if
                     you include any spaces within an Animator option,
                     UNIX regards the option as more than one option.  If
                     parameter is file-name, then it can be a fully
                     specified file-name, including path, unless
                     otherwise stated.

If you specify an Animator directive in a $SET statement or in a
DIRECTIVES file, parameter cannot be preceded by an equals sign (=).  It
must be enclosed either within double quotation marks (" ") or
parentheses.

Cob maps the equals sign (which has no special meaning to UNIX) to the
format which uses parentheses (as these do have a special meaning to
UNIX). If you use quotation marks or parentheses you must escape them
with the backslash character (\) whenever they might be misinterpreted by
the UNIX shell.  As the equals sign has no special meaning, it does not
need to be escaped.

In this manual, parameters appear in quotation marks.

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