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If you find out the beginning text of any command, like DSP for display WRK for work with you can key DSP* to get a list of all the commands that start that way, but that can be pretty long easier to GO MAJOR or GO MAIN then explore menus from there There are also topics that have menus GO TAPE for all the options to do with using the tape drive. > Jill, > > One of the real beauties of the AS/400 is its consistent command naming > structure. Most of the commands are named in nice 3 characters > abbreviations that are generally intuitive and frequently "guessable" (if > that is a word). If you think of something you want to do, like say "I'd > like to save a library", you might be able to guess that the command for it > is "SAVLIB". "DSP" for Display, "OBJ" for Object, "CRT" for Create, "CHG" > for Change .... well, you get the picture. > > Take a stab at guessing at a command or two, but remember to prompt for the > command by pressing F4. Then position the cursor on the Command's Title > and press F1. Voila, command help text! > > Another goodie is to bring up a list of commands that can be chosen from a > menu: > > GO CMDDSP (a list of all "DSP" commands is presented) > GO CMDOUTQ (a list of Output Queue commands is presented) > etc. > > Enjoy! Bill MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
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