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Removing the mode prompt message line

To help guide you, File-AID uses the last line of the display to list valid display mode primary commands.

  Enter FMT (formatted mode), CHAR (character mode),...

After you become familiar with the basic commands (CHAR, FMT, VFMT, and HEX), you can turn off the display of this message line with the MESSAGE (MSG) command.

Suppress Mode Prompt Message Line (MESSAGE OFF)

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FMT

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HEX
MESSAGE-MSG

To turn off the display of message line with the MESSAGE (MSG) command, perform the following steps:

  1. Type MSG OFF in the COMMAND field.
  2. Press Enter. File-AID redisplays the screen without the message line as shown in the following figure.

Browse - Vertical Formatted Mode - After MSG OFF Command. Lower Portion of Screen - Prompt Line Gone

30001      RICHARDS        REX            W                     RODEO CLOWN
 31000      SAVAGE          JONATHON       C                     ELECTRICIAN
 34010      SMITH           JANET                                AIRLINE ATTENDAN
 34011      JACOBS          DIANA                                DOCTOR
 ******************************** BOTTOM OF DATA ********************-CAPS OFF-


More about the MESSAGE command

  • You can specify the command as MESSAGE or MSG.
  • Use MSG ON to redisplay the line.
  • Setting is remembered from session to session.

 

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BMC Compuware File-AID/MVS 21.01