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A-6 AlphaServer DS20L User’s Guide
A.3.1 Commands: Syntax
Table A– 2 Syntax for SRM Console Commands
Parameter Attribute or Action
Length Up to 255 characters, not including the terminating carriage
return or any characters deleted as the command is entered. A
command longer than 80 characters and without the backslash
character (see Table A–3) causes display of an error message.
Case Upper- or lowercase characters can be used for input.
Characters are displayed in the case in which they are entered.
Abbreviation Only by dropping characters from the end of words. You must
enter the minimum number of characters to identify the
keyword unambiguously. Abbreviation of environment
variables is allowed with the show command.
Options You can use command options, to modify the environment,
after the command keyword or after any symbol or number in
the command. See individual command descriptions for
examples.
Numbers Most numbers in console commands are in decimal notation.
Two exceptions, both of which use hexadecimal notation, are
addresses and numbers used in the deposit command. The
default radix can be overridden by inserting %d before
numbers you want to express in decimal, %b before binary, %o
before octal, or %x before hexadecimal. Register names (for
example, R0) are not considered numbers and use decimal
notation.
No
characters
A command line with no characters is a null command. The
console program takes no action and does not issue an error
message; it returns the console prompt. The console supports
command line recall and editing.
Spaces or
tabs
Multiple adjacent spaces and tabs are compressed and treated
as a single space. The console program ignores leading and
trailing spaces.