Chapter 1 Learning to Use MPE/iX Commands

Table of Contents

Using This Tutorial

Beginning and Ending a Computer Work Session

Before You Start
Getting Started
To log off
To use passwords
To enter commands
Using the Help Facility
To exit HELP
To get the current time and date
To change the current time and date
To get information about your session
To get information about jobs and sessions
To correct an error

Introduction to Accounts, Groups, and Users

To list account information
To list account passwords
To list group information
To see detailed information about groups
To add a new group
Users
To list the users in your account
Files
To display file names

Creating and Editing Files

To start EDIT/3000
To leave EDIT/3000
To begin creating a text file
To add lines of text
To look at your text file
To save a text file
To list your files from within EDIT/3000
Editing a text file
To open a file for editing
To add additional lines of text
To add lines in the middle of a text file
To erase a line
To renumber the lines
To modify a text line

Working with Files

Using HFS syntax
Listing the file
Creating a directory
To rename a file
To copy a file
To release file security
To copy files from another group
To delete a file

Creating a Job File

To look at a sample job file
To include a JOB command line
To defer output to a file
To use other commands in job files
To include a TELL command line
To include the EOJ command line
To stream a job
To schedule a job

Creating Command Files

To create a welcome message command file

Copying Files To and From Tape

To copy files to tape
To copy several files to tape
To copy a file from tape

Getting Started - HP 3000 Series 9X8LX (B3813-90001) describes one way for you to communicate with your computer system, namely through the menu-driven screens of HP Easytime/iX. This manual describes another method, namely, directly entering MPE/iX operating system commands.

Chapter 1 Learning to Use MPE/iX Commands

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