Command Index
The following table lists approximate equivalent commands between the
IBM mainframe VM/CMS, DEC VAX/VMS, PC-DOS, and UNIX operating systems.
If you are already familiar with one of these systems, you can use this
table to identify a similar command in one of the others. Under UNIX,
use the man command to obtain details regarding command usage
and syntax. This table provides links within the text of the AX01 User's
Guide where the listed UNIX commands are discussed.
| CMS | VAX | PC-DOS | UNIX | DESCRIPTION |
| hx | <Ctrl-C> | <Ctrl-Break> | <Ctrl-C> | terminate executing command |
| | <Delete> | <Ctrl-H> | <Ctrl-H> | delete previous character |
| | <Ctrl-Q> | <Ctrl-Q> | <Ctrl-Q> | resume display scrolling |
| | <Ctrl-S> | <Ctrl-S> | <Ctrl-S> | pause display scrolling |
| | <Ctrl-U> | <Ctrl-U> | <Ctrl-U> | kill current line |
| type | type | type | cat | conCATenate to screen |
| | | | chmod | change file or directory permissions |
| | sd | cd | cd | Change Directory |
| <clear> | clear | cls | clear | clear screen |
| compare | diff | compare | cmp, diff | CoMPare two files |
| copyfile | copy | copy | cp | CoPy a file |
| q time | time | date | date | DATE and time |
| q disk | show quota | chkdsk | du | display disk space |
| | | find | find | FIND files |
| q names | finger | | finger | obtain information about system users |
| | search | find | grep | Global Regular Expression Parser |
| | | | head | type top lines of file |
| print | mvsprint | print | lpr | Line Printer |
| fl, flist | dir | dir | ls | LiSt files |
| mail | mail | | mail, elm | MAIL |
| help | help | | man | display MANual pgs |
| | cr/d | mkdir, md | mkdir | MaKe DIRectory |
| browse | | more | more, pg | display file a page at a time |
| rename | rename | rename | mv | MoVe file to a new name or to a different directory |
| script | runoff | | nroff, troff | text formatting pgm |
| vmx | set password | | passwd | change PASSWorD |
| | sd | cd . | pwd | Print Working Directory |
| q disk | show quota | chkdsk | quota | display disk space |
| erase | delete | erase, del | rm | ReMove file |
| | delete | rd, rmdir | rmdir | ReMove DIRectory |
| q term | show | set | printenv | show environmental variables |
| sort | sort | sort | sort | SORT |
| | | mode | stty | Set TeleTYpe characteristics |
| | | | tail | type bottom of file |
| xedit | edt, eve | edlin | vi, ed | text editor |
| spellchk | | | wc | Word Count |
| q users | who | | who | Identify logged on users |
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