EVE SAVE_ATTRIBUTES — VMS 5.5

 SAVE ATTRIBUTES

 Saves global settings and other customizations by creating a section file
 or by creating or updating a command file.

 Steps:

    1.  Make the changes you want, such as adding or removing menu items,
        enabling bound cursor motion, setting tab modes, and so on.

    2.  Use SAVE ATTRIBUTES.  By default, EVE prompts you for the name of a
        section file to create (see usage notes below).

 Usage notes:

 o  A section file is in binary form so it is executed quickly at startup,
    but cannot be printed or edited.  In effect, the section file is your
    own, customized version of EVE, saving the following:

       *  Compiled procedures
       *  Global settings (see help on Attributes)
       *  Key definitions, including learn sequences
       *  Menu definitions for the DECwindows interface

 o  If you save in a command file, EVE saves most global settings and any
    menu definitions by generating a specially marked block of TPU
    statements.  EVE then creates a new command file or updates an existing
    command file.  For an example of this attribute block, see help on
    Command Files.

 o  The following table shows the effects on SAVE ATTRIBUTES depending on
    whether you set a default section file and whether section file
    prompting is enabled or disabled:

    Settings                        Effects with SAVE ATTRIBUTES
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    SET DEFAULT SECTION FILE        Saves in your default section file
    SET NOSECTION FILE PROMPTING    without any further prompting.

    SET DEFAULT SECTION FILE        Asks whether to save in a section
    SET SECTION FILE PROMPTING      file.  If you respond Yes, EVE then
                                    saves in your default section file.

    SET NODEFAULT SECTION FILE      Asks whether to save in a command
    SET NOSECTION FILE PROMPTING    file (.TPU) without prompting for
                                    saving in a section file.

    SET NODEFAULT SECTION FILE      (Defaults.)  Asks whether to save in a
    SET SECTION FILE PROMPTING      section file.  If you respond Yes, EVE
                                    asks for the name of the section file.

 o  If you always want to save in a section file, you can use (and save)
    the following commands, so that SAVE ATTRIBUTES creates a new version
    of your default section file without prompting:

       Command: SET DEFAULT SECTION FILE
       Command: SET NOSECTION FILE PROMPTING

 o  If you always want to save in a command file, you can use (and save)
    the following commands, so that SAVE ATTRIBUTES prompts for a command
    file and shows the name of your default command file in the prompt
    line:

       Command: SET NOSECTION FILE PROMPTING
       Command: SET NODEFAULT SECTION FILE
       Command: SET DEFAULT COMMAND FILE

 o  When you exit or quit, EVE checks if any attributes were changed and
    not saved.  If so, asks whether you want to save them.  If you respond
    Yes, EVE does a SAVE ATTRIBUTES.

 Related topics

    Attributes          Command Files            Section Files
    SAVE EXTENDED EVE   SAVE SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES   SET EXIT ATTRIBUTE CHECK
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