SHELL(SVAS)

Shore Programmer's Manual - 2 August 96

NAME

shell \- Tcl interface to the Shore Value-Added Server

SYNOPSIS

vas
(0)% help [command | keyword]

DESCRIPTION

The Shore Value-Added Server includes a Tcl-based command shell. The shell understands many commands; for a list of commands, start the server and, after the prompt, type

help

info commands

The set of commands understood by the shell is a mix of standard Tcl commands (e.g., info, if, open, file) and Shore commands (e.g., mount, shorefile, readref). If you type

help commandname

for a standard Tcl command, you will get no special help. If the command is a Shore command, you will get information about how to use the command.

Help can also be found by typing

help keyword

for many keywords.

ENVIRONMENT

The shell is linked into the server process, but the server can be run without the shell by setting the option svas_tclshell to no.

VERSION

This manual page applies to Version 1.0 of theShore software.

SPONSORSHIP

The Shore project is sponsored by the Advanced Research Project Agency, ARPA order number 018 (formerly 8230), monitored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory under contract DAAB07-92-C-Q508.