Museum

Home

Lab Overview

Retrotechnology Articles

Online Manuals

⇒ element_name — Apollo

Media Vault

Software Library

Restoration Projects

Artifacts Sought


DSEE element_name and wildcard_element_name arguments:

element_name

Identifies an element in a DSEE library.

Format

name

Description

Some  commands  that  operate  on  elements take the element_name argument.  The
element_name argument denotes an element in a DSEE library.  Thus,

DSEE> create element my_prog.ftn

creates an element called my_prog.ftn in the current library.

For a number of the commands that  take  the  element_name  argument,  the  DSEE
facility  resets your current library if the named element is not in the current
library.  This happens if you have a current  system  model  setting;  the  DSEE
facility searches the model for a single Element block with the same name as the
element you've identified in the command argument.  Finding such  a  block,  the
DSEE  facility resets your current library to the library containing the Element
block's  primary  source  dependency  before  performing  the  operation.    The
descriptions  of  the  commands  that  might  cause a library reset identify the
commands as such.

wildcard_element_name

Identifies one or more DSEE elements.

Format

wildcard_specification

Description

A number of commands operate on a set  of  elements  at  one  time.    For  some
commands,   such   as   show   elements   and   show  history,  you  can  use  a
wildcard_element_name - a text string that matches one or  more  element  names.
For example,

DSEE> show history ?*.ftn

displays  history  information for all elements whose names end in the extension
.ftn.  (For more information about wildcards, refer to the DOMAIN System Command
Reference.)

For  a  number  of  the  commands  that take the wildcard_element_name argument,
identifying one specific element in the argument causes  the  DSEE  facility  to
automatically  reset  the current library if it can't find the specified element
in the current library.  This  happens  if  you  have  a  current  system  model
setting;  the  DSEE  facility searches the model for a single Element block with
the same name as the element you've identified in the command argument.  Finding
such  a  block,  the  DSEE  facility  resets your current library to the library
containing the Element block's primary source dependency before  performing  the
operation.    The  descriptions of the commands that might cause a library reset
identify the commands as such.

Typewritten Software • bear@typewritten.org • Edmonds, WA 98026