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October 2004
Boosting your e3000 productivity
MPE Quickstart for Unix Users
By Robert
Green
Based on the
technical support calls that we are receiving this year, it appears
that many HP 3000 systems are being put in the care of staff with
only Unix and Windows experience. So we have decided to write a
series of introductions to MPE for these lucky souls.
Cross
Reference from
Unix
Commands to MPE Commands
First thing you need to know is that MPE has Unix-like features integrated into it (via Posix), but most applications and software programs were written with the non-Posix features. Basic MPE consists of a single shell (the command interpreter) and a file system that has only three levels (user, group, account) but has many file attributes including record size/type, max file size, extents and passwords (called lockwords).
The third-party
product MPEX from VEsoft is an alternate shell, as is sh.pub.sys (the
Posix shell). The cross reference list below is adapted from an
inverse list by Neil Armstrong of Robelle.
UNIX
Command
Equivalent MPE
Command
sh
command
interpreter, mpex or posix shell
ksh
command
interpreter, mpex or posix shell
csh
command
interpreter, mpex or posix shell
.profile (sh)
option logon in UDC
ksh $r, csh %!
while do, do until
< file (input)
< file
> file (output)
> file
>> file
(append)
>> file
(append)
<< hereis doc
Not supported
scripts
command files, udc
# at start of line
comment
command &
Not supported,
use job
cmd1 && cmd2
Not supported
$r(ksh),%!(csh)
redo
x=v;export NAME
setvar
abortjobkill [-9]
abortio
adduser
newuser
at
stream
batch
stream
cancel
deletespoolfile
cd
chdir
chmod, passwd
altacct
chmod, passwd
altgroup
chmod file
altsec file
chmod, passwd
altuser
cp
copy
cpio
store
date
showtime
dc
calc
df, bdf
discfree, dstat
du
diskuse,report
echo
echo,r print
ed
editor, quad
or qedit
env
showvar
exit
bye, exit, eoj
fbackup (hp-ux)
store
fc -1 (sh)
listredo
fi
endif
ftp
ftp, dscopy
if then else
if then else
history
listredo
hostname
showme
login
hello, job
logname
showme
kill [-9]
abort
ld
linkedit
lpq
showout
lprm
deletespoolfile
lpstat
showout
ls
listf, listfile
man
help
mesg -n
set msg off
mkdir
newdir,newacct,newgroup
more
print
mv
rename
printenv
showvar
ps
showproc, showq
pwd
pwd
rwall
warn
reboot -h
=shutdown
rm
purge
rmdir
purgegroup,purgeacct
sed
editor, quad, qedit
setenv
setvar
su
god (3rd party
vesoft)
symbolic link
file equation,
posix link
tar
store
touch
build
unset,unsetenv
deletevar
users
showjob
vi
qedit
wall
warn
whence
help
whoami
showme
while...do...done
while do endwhile
write
tell
Next month,
explaining what you did when you first logged onto MPE and what it
all means.
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