GENERAL INFORMATION COMMAND ENTRY in FILE-AID

File-AID provides commands for commonly used functions. You may enter commands in one of two ways:     

   1)  By typing the command in the command/option field (line 2 of the screen) and then pressing the ENTER key, or   

   2)  By pressing a program function (PF) key to which you have assigned the desired command. 

 You can assign commands to PF keys using option 0.0.3 or the KEYS command. When you press the PF key, the processing is the same as if you typed the command in the command field and pressed ENTER.                

Before you press a PF key, you can enter information in the command field. The PF key definition is concatenated ahead of the contents of the command field.  For example, suppose you assign the DOWN command to the PF8 key. If you type "6" in the command field and press PF8, the results are the same as if you had typed "DOWN 6" in the command field and pressed ENTER.   

 You can stack multiple commands for execution in one interaction by entering a special delimiter between the commands.  The default delimiter is a semicolon (;).  You can change the delimiter using option 0.0.1.  For example:                                                                     

  COMMAND ===> DOWN 10;LEFT              

 In this example the DOWN and LEFT commands have been stacked.