Chapter 6. Commands

Revision History
Revision V6.1-00028 August 2014
  • In “Key Words in VIEW Command”, added the LINK keyword and an example for TRACE.

  • In “ZLink”, added the description of recursive relink.

  • In “ZSHOW Information Codes”, added the description of ZSHOW "R" and removed the description of ZSHOW "C".

  • In “Close”, added information for closing a listening LOCAL socket.

  • In “Job”, added information about using DETACHed sockets in INPUT, OUTPUT, and ERROR Processmarameters.

  • Moved the contents of SET * under SET and KILL * under KILL.

Revision V6.0-00324 February 2014
Revision V6.0-00121 March 2013
Revision V6.0-00019 November 2012
Revision V5.5-000/231 October 2012In “ZSHOW Information Codes”, corrected the definitions of LKS and LKF mnemonics.
Revision V5.5-000/105 October 2012In “ZSYstem”, added a note to highlight PIPE devices as an alternative for ZSYSTEM and improved the description of “"JNLFLUSH"[:region]” and “JNLWAIT”.
Revision V5.5-00015 June 2012Updated “View”, “Do”, “TROllback”, “ZMessage” for V5.5-000, improved the description of “ZLink”, and corrected the syntax of “ZSYstem”.
Revision V5.4-002B26 December 2011Conversion to documentation revision history reflecting GT.M releases with revision history for each chapter.

This chapter describes M language commands implemented in GT.M. All commands starting with the letter Z are GT.M additions to the ANSI standard command set. The M standard specifies standard abbreviations for commands and rejects any non-standard abbreviation. Behavior of I/O commands including OPEN, USE, READ, WRITE, and CLOSE is described in Chapter 9: “Input/Output Processing.

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