HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual - HP 3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems - Edition 1 (32715-90001)

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Appendix C Explains the HP Business BASIC/XL Configuration Utility,
which establishes default values for HP Business
BASIC/XL.
Appendix D Gives the decimal and hexadecimal codes for the ASCII
characters.
Appendix E Describes the HP terminals and language features.
Appendix F Explains JOINFORM, the FORMS/260 compatible forms
package.
Appendix G Contains a technical discussion of the ANYPARM External
Call Feature.
Conventions Used In This Manual
Notation Description
COMMAND Commands are shown in CAPITAL LETTERS. The names must
contain no blanks and be delimited by a non-alphabetic
character (usually a blank).
KEYWORDS Literal keywords, which are entered exactly as
specified, appear in CAPITAL LETTERS.
parameter Parameters, for which you may substitute a value, appear
in italics .
[ ] An element inside brackets is optional. Several
elements stacked inside a pair of brackets means the
user may select any one or none of these elements.
Example:
[A]
[B] user may select A or B or neither.
When brackets are nested, parameters in inner brackets
can only be specified if parameters in outer brackets or
comma place-holders are specified.
Example: [ parm1 [, parm2 [, parm3 ]]]
may be entered as
parm1,parm2,parm3 or
parm1,,parm3 or
,,parm3 ,etc.
{ } When several elements are stacked within braces the user
must select one of these elements. Example:
{A}
{B}
{C}
You must select A or B or C.
... An ellipsis in a syntax statement indicates that a
previous bracketed element may be repeated. Within an
example, vertical and horizontal ellipses show where
portions of the example have been omitted.
User Input In examples of interactive dialog, user input is underlined.
Example: NEW NAME? ALPHA1
CONTROL Control characters are indicated by CONTROL. Example:
CONTROL Y. (Press the CNTL key and Y simultaneously.)
RETURN RETURN indicates the carriage return key.