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909: 418: 154:, or SCL for short. In order to be callable from SCL, command programs must declare their parameters; this permits automatic usage summaries, passing of parameters by name or by position, and type checking on the parameter values. All standard NOS/VE commands further follow a particular naming convention, where the form of the command is 282:
integrate into the command shell. They change the prompt and add commands like get_file. Thereby statements like flow-control stay the same and subsystems can be mixed in procedures (scripts).
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Inspired by addressing structure-members in various programming languages, the catalog separator is the dot.
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Computer history - NOS/VE (Most of this information was extracted from a CDC NOS/VE information leaflet)
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Commands could take parameters such as the create_connection command:
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would connect you to IP address 10.1.2.3 with telnet service.
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Index

Developer
Control Data Corporation
Mainframe computers
CDC Cyber 180 series
License
Proprietary
operating system
time-sharing
Control Data Corporation
virtual memory
64-bit
CDC Cyber 180 series
NOS
command shell
ls
pwd
cd
rmdir
cp
rm
telnet
FTP
NOS
CDC Kronos
NOS/BE
User's Guide for NOS/VE on the CDC Cyber 960
Computer history - NOS/VE (Most of this information was extracted from a CDC NOS/VE information leaflet)
NOS/VE Operating System
NOS/VE Command Language Syntax
List of NOS/VE Commands

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