This section describes the GDE commands. GDE allows abbreviations of commands. The section describing each command provides the minimum abbreviation for that command and a description of any qualifiers that are not object-related. The section discussing the object-type describes all the associated object-related qualifiers.
The general format for GDE commands is:
command [-object-type] [object-name] [-qualifier]
where:
-object-typeIndicates whether the command operates on a -N[AME] space, -R[EGION], or -S[EGMENT].
object-nameSpecifies the name of the N[AME] space, R[EGION], or S[EGMENT]. Objects of different types may have the same name. Name spaces may include the wildcard operator (*) as a suffix.
-qualifierIndicates an object qualifier.
The format description for each individual command specifies required qualifiers for that command.
The @, EXIT, HELP, LOG, QUIT, SETGD, and SPAWN commands do not use this general format. For the applicable format, refer to the section explaining each of these commands.
Comments on the command line may be delimited by an exclamation mark (!).
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An exclamation mark not enclosed in quotation marks ("") causes GDE to ignore the rest of that input line. |
To ensure that GT.M properly interprets the name of a file you specify as part of a command line, file-names must either appear as the last item on the command line or be surrounded by quotation marks. Because UNIX file naming conventions permit the use of virtually any character in a file-name, once a qualifier such as -FILE_NAME or -LOG introduces a file-name and the first character after the equal sign is not a quotation mark, GT.M treats the entire remainder of the line as the file-name. When using quotation marks around file-names, GDE interprets a pair of embedded quotation marks as a single quotation mark within the file-name. Note that the use of Ctrl or punctuation characters such as exclamation mark (!), asterisk (*), or comma (,) in a file-name creates subsequent significant operational file management challenges.