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Requests help using KSAMUTIL

 

   >{ HELP 

      H    } 

This command returns a summary description of each of the KSAMUTIL commands when entered at a terminal. The keyword "HELP" can be abbreviated to "H".

REQUESTING HELP

The HELP command lists all the valid KSAMUTIL commands and then asks if you need information on a particular command. When you enter the name of a KSAMUTIL command, HELP displays the command syntax. HELP is terminated by entering N in response to the prompt MORE (Y/N)?.

The following example illustrates the HELP command.

>H



VALID COMMANDS ARE: 

BUILD[B].......TO CREATE A FILE 

ERASE..........TO RESET A FILE TO INITIAL CONDITIONS 

EXIT[E]........TO LEAVE THIS ROUTINE 

PURGE..........TO DELETE A FILE 

RENAME[R]......TO RENAME A FILE 

SAVE[S]........TO RETAIN A TEMPORARY FILE 

VERIFY[V]......TO DESCRIBE FILE CHARACTERISTICS 

KEYINFO[KI]....TO OBTAIN KEY FILE INFORMATIONS 

KEYDUMB[KD]....TO OBTAIN FORMATTED KEY FILE STRUCTURAL DUMP 

KEYSEQ[KS].....TO CHECK THE SEQUENCE OF KEY FILE 



MORE (Y/N)?Y 



ENTER COMMAND NAME: B 

BUILD  <DATAFILEREF> 

[;DEV= <DEVICE>] 

[;DISC=[ <NUMREC>][, <NUMEXTENTS>][, <INITAL-OC>]]] 

(REC=[ <RECSIZE>][,[ <BLOCKFACTOR>][,[F \V][,BINARY \,ASCII]]]] 

[;TEMP] 

[;CODE= <FILECODE>] 

;KEY= <TYPE>, <POSITION>[,[ <LENGTH>][,[ <BLOCKING>][,DUPLICATE]]] 

                                                    [,RDUP] 

[;KEY= <TYPE>, <POSITION>[,[ <LENGTH>][,[ <BLOCKING>][,DUPLICATE]]] ...] 

                                                    [,RDUP]]]...] 

[;LABELS= <NUMBERLABELS>] 

[;FIRSTREC=0\-1] 

[;KEYDEV= <DEVICE>] 

;KEYFILE =FILEREFERENCE2 

[;KEYENTPIES= <NUMBER>] 

 <TYPE>::=B\D\I\R\L\N\P\* 



MORE (Y/N)?Y



ENTER COMMAND NAME: E 



EXIT 



MORE (Y/N)?Y



ENTER COMMAND NAME: ERASE 



ERASE  <FTLEREFERENCE> 



MORE (Y/N)?Y



ENTER COMMAND NAME: PURGE 



PURGE  <FILEREFERENCE>[,TEMP] 



MORE (Y/N)?Y 



ENTER COMMAND NAME: R 



RENAME  <OLDFILEREF>, <NEWFILEREF>[,TEMP] 



MORE (Y/N)?Y 



ENTER COMMAND NAME: S 



SAVE [ <TEMPFILEREF>] 



MORE (Y/N)?Y 



ENTER COMMAND NAME: V



VERIFY [ <FILFREFERENCE>] 

[;OFFLINE] 

[;NOCHECK] 

MORE (Y/N)?Y 



ENTER COMMAND NAME: KD 



KEYDUMP [ <FILEREFERENCE>] 

[;SEQ= <KEYSEQUENCE>] 

[;SUBSET=[ [ minus;] <POSITION>][, <NUMBER>]]

         I                   I 

         ["CHAR-STRING"] 

[;FILE = <FILEREFERENCE1>] 

I                       I 

[;OFFLINE               ] 

[;SORT]



MORE (Y/N)?Y



ENTER COMMAND NAME: KI 



KEYINFO [ <FILEREFERENCE>] 

[;OFFLINE] 

[;RECOVER] 

MORE (Y/N)?Y 





ENTER COMMAND NAME: KS 



KEYSEQ [ <FILEREFERENCE>] 

[;SEQ= <KEYSEQENCE>] 

(;OFFLINE] 

[;NOLIST] 



MORE (Y/N)?N <---------------- terminate HELP display 



>E



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