Open VMS Operating System Concepts, Second Edition

Appendix A: Answers to Short Answer Exercises

CHAPTER 1

  1. CTRL-Y and CTRL-C produce a reverse video "Interrupt.";

    CTRL-T produces a status line, if enabled.

    CTRL-M or Return echoes both CTRL-M and CTRL-J (line feed).

    Left and right arrows move the cursor.

    Up and down arrow display previously entered commands.

    CTRL-J or Line feed deletes characters to a delimiter.

    CTRL-I or Tab echoes spaces until the next tab mark is reached.

    ESCAPE echoes nothing.

  2. DELETE echoes a backstroke () and the deleted character.

    • ^U starts a new line.

    • ^Y and C display *INTERRUPT*.

    • ^Z displays *EXIT*.

  3. Any of the interactive utilities are possible candidates; EDT, TPU, MAIL, PHONE, HELP, and DEBUG are the most common. These utilities also use the keypad, and although the user can create keypad commands at the command level, there are no default definitions. ^Y and ^Z generally behave differently in these utilities.

    • HELP, DEBUG, and CREATE are identical to command level editing.

    • The editors cause the up and down arrows to scroll the file. EDT LF has some subtle differences. EDT ^Z brings the user to a different editor.

    • PHONE echos characters in the proper window, not necessarily where the cursor is located. ^L clears the entire window.

    • MAIL treats ^Y and ^C differently.

  4. The keys you enter are not echoed, but the system responses are displayed as usual.

  5. The systematic method would be like this:

    $SET PROC/NAME="1"

    then use

    $ SHO PROC

    to test if the whole name was accepted. If it is

    $ SET PROC/NAME="12"

    and test again. Continue until either...

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