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authordos-reis <gdr@axiomatics.org>2009-04-18 06:11:42 +0000
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* Makefile.pamphlet (all-input): Make all-doc a requirement. (all-doc): Tidy. * doc/Makefile.in: Likewise. Install help files. * doc/help: New. Home for help files.
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+Copyright The Numerical Algorithms Group Limited 1992-94. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (C) 2007-2009, Gabriel Dos Reis. All rights reserved.
+
+OpenAxiom Help Information.
+Section numbers refer to the on-line version of the book
+AXIOM: The Scientific Computation System by Richard D. Jenks and Robert S. Sutor
+
+==============================================================================
+A.21. )set
+==============================================================================
+
+User Level Required: interpreter
+
+Command Syntax:
+
+ - )set
+ - )set label1 [... labelN]
+ - )set label1 [... labelN] newValue
+
+Command Description:
+
+The )set command is used to view or set system variables that control what
+messages are displayed, the type of output desired, the status of the history
+facility, the way OpenAxiom user functions are cached, and so on. Since this
+collection is very large, we will not discuss them here. Rather, we will show
+how the facility is used. We urge you to explore the )set options to
+familiarize yourself with how you can modify your OpenAxiom working
+environment. There is a HyperDoc version of this same facility
+available from the main HyperDoc menu. Click [here] to go to it.
+
+The )set command is command-driven with a menu display. It is
+tree-structured. To see all top-level nodes, issue )set by itself.
+
+)set
+
+Variables with values have them displayed near the right margin. Subtrees of
+selections have ``...'' displayed in the value field. For example, there are
+many kinds of messages, so issue )set message to see the choices.
+
+)set message
+
+The current setting for the variable that displays whether computation times
+are displayed is visible in the menu displayed by the last command. To see
+more information, issue
+
+)set message time
+
+This shows that time printing is on now. To turn it off, issue
+
+)set message time off
+
+As noted above, not all settings have so many qualifiers. For example, to
+change the )quit command to being unprotected (that is, you will not be
+prompted for verification), you need only issue
+
+)set quit unprotected
+
+Also See:
+o )quit
+