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Hi, James:

I often find that I cannot remember the exact "name" of some obscure OS/400 commands.

So, I do this...

Knowing something about how IBM names commands, based on three-letter abbreviations for "verb" followed by "object type"... I just type the first few characters on any system command line, followed by an "*", and press Enter ...

For example:

CMP*

This shows a menu of the "candidate" commands that match the pattern.
I don't recall at what release I first discovered this little "trick" but it has saved me many hours of frustration.

The old way to do this, before it was integrated into the command line, was to prompt the "Select Command" (SLTCMD_ command, like this:

SLTCMD CMP*

Hope that helps,

Mark

-- "Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish ...."

> James H. H. Lampert wrote:
The subject line says it all: I'm trying to remember whether there's a utility for comparing two different members (possibly in two different files) containing different versions of the same source. And if there is, what is it? The box in question is at V5R4.

--
JHHL

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