General Notes. Robelle Suprtool 4.6.01, STExport, Suprlink

Suprtool Commands

General Notes

Do not enter the > sign when typing commands.

When you run Suprtool, it prompts for commands with a ">" character and reads command lines from the standard input device. Suprtool commands contain a command name which may include one or more optional parameters that are each separated by commas.

In this chapter, we describe the Suprtool commands in alphabetic order. Each command name is followed by its minimal abbreviation in brackets. For example:

[D] for Define and [DU] for Duplicate.

Most Suprtool commands work within the context of the input file. In general, the

Base, Chain, Get, Open, Select and Input commands must be entered before other commands. Once the input source has been specified, commands can be entered in any order.

Abbreviating

You may shorten the command name to any substring that uniquely defines the command. For example, Form can be abbreviated as FO or F, since there are no other commands that start with "F". Duplicate, however, can be abbreviated only to

DU, since there is also a Define command in Suprtool.

>i sdfile {Input command}

>l {List command}

>x {Xeq command}

Uppercase or Lowercase

You can enter the letters in either uppercase or lowercase because Suprtool upshifts everything in the command line except literal strings within quotes (e.g., "abc") and disc file names. These two commands are identical:

>EXTRACT QTY

>extract qty

Multiple Commands per Line

You can enter several commands on a single line, if you separate them with semicolons. An entire "task" can be placed on one input line.

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