Control Commands

Control commands include those for:

  • controlling parallel operations: parallel
  • writing program information: log, (save session to an ASCII file) script (record a set of commands), save (save commands needed to restore the current program state), autosave (automatically run the save command at specified intervals);
  • controlling program output: chatter (control the amount of program output), query (give an automatic response to prompts), tclout and tcloutr (create Tcl variables for manipulation in scripts)
  • displaying status information: show, time, and version
  • ending the session: exit (or quit)
  • displaying online help help and ?. Help can be given either in summary, in specific manual pages, a manual section, or the entire manual.




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