>HELP VTM VTM is a program used to format messages for a VT100 terminal. Various options are available and are listed below. If no options are specified, the default is to clear the screen and and write the message in double height characters centered in the middle of the screen. Help can be obtained on a particular topic (option) by typing : HELP VTM subtopic subsubtopic ... Get help on "Startup" and "Format" before attempting to use VTM. Additional information available: ALL ACSET AGSET ANSI BLINE BELL BLINK BOLD BOX CLEAR COLUMN CENTER CBOL CEOL CLIN CBOS CEOS CSCR DELAY DHEIGHT DWIDTH Format JUMP HOME KEYPAD LINE LED LJUSTIFY LMARGIN NARROW OUTPUT OFF PLINE REVERSE REGION RESET RJUSTIFY RMARGIN RULER TLINE SKIP SCREEN SGRAPHICS SMOOTH Startup TTY TEST TERMINAL UNDERSCORE UKSET USSET WIDE >HELP VTM STARTUP There are three methods of starting VTM; they are: 1. $ VTM VTM> This is the interactive mode. VTM continues to prompt for input until you type CTRL/Z to exit. 2. $ VTM message_text Clears the screen, writes the message in the middle of the screen, and then exits. 3. $ VTM @command_file Using this method, command lines are read from the specified command file. The length of the command lines can be up to a maximum of 132 characters. The continuation character "-" is allowed at the end of a line. If the extension isn't specified the default is .CMD. >HELP VTM FORMAT Command lines are of the form: {option, option, ...} message_text {option, option, ...} etc. Where message_text is the text to display. If contained in a command file, upper and lowercase characters are accepted. The command line interpreters (MCR and DCL) convert lowercase to uppercase. The message is truncated if the length is too long. The braces MUST be specified around the options. Multiple options must be separated with commas. The options can be abbreviated to one or two characters. >