Index C

C

Calendar application (New Desktop), 203

Calendar control (New Desktop), 196–97

CALL command, 122, 131–32

Canceling PHONE calls, 112

Captive accounts, 143

Case, DCL commands and, 43

CDE (Common Desktop Environment), 6, 194

CISC (complex instruction set computer), 13, 14, 15

Classes of users, 94–95

CLI (Command Line Interpreter)

abbreviating elements, 46

command procedures for batch processes, 19, 24

commands longer than one line, 47

DCL symbols, 50–56

entering commands, 39–40, 43–50

format of commands, 41–42

HELP for commands, 115–17

messages, 48–50

overview, 41

parts of commands, 42–43

prompts for incomplete commands, 47

See also DCL (Digital Command Language); specific commands

Clock control (New Desktop), 196

CLOSE command, 124, 126

Cluster alias, 271

Clustering, 271–74

defined, 271

OpenVMS role for, 8–9

overview, 271

resource locks, 271–73

storage controllers, 273–74

Command levels, 122–23

Command pipelining, 108–9

Command procedures, 119–36

batch process execution of, 19

batch queues and, 24

branching, 122, 130–34

command levels, 122–23

creating, 120

DCL symbols in, 54

defined, 19, 119

entering commands, 120–21

error handling, 125–26, 135–36

executed at login, 39

executing as batch jobs, 123

executing interactively, 122

getting input data, 126–29

labels, 129–30

modifying procedures already queued, 80–81

naming, 120

nested, 122

for New Desktop actions, 211–14

parameters, 129

passing embedded data into programs, 127

passing keyboard data into programs, 127–28

reading and writing files from, 124–26

self-documenting, 121

for shutting down personal OpenVMS systems, 230–32

for starting personal OpenVMS systems, 228–29

verification and batch jobs, 80

Command qualifiers, 43

Commands menu (DECwindows FileView application), 221–22

Comments in DCL, 48

Common Desktop Environment (CDE), 6, 194

Comparison operators, 59

Complex instruction set computer (CISC), 13, 14, 15

Concealing translations for logical names, 103

Connecting to the system

directly connected terminals, 34

GUI-based workstation access, 36

modem access, 35

Telnet access, 34

terminal server access, 35–36

Console processor, 225

Console subsystem for personal OpenVMS systems, 225–33

autoboot feature, 227

console prompt, 226

customizing system startup, 228–29

overview, 225–26

system shutdown, 229–33

system startup, 226–29

CONTROL access, 31

Control characters, 150–53

Control region (P1 space), 241, 242

COPY command, 72, 73, 109

Copying

applications or files to the desktop, 210–11

e-mail messages when sending, 161

files, 72, 73

remote operations via FTP, 109

text in EDT, 173

Crackers, 137

CREATE command, 72, 89–90

Custom commands, 77