New and Enhanced Commands

As of Release 4.5, the MPE CI was extended to support POSIX enhancements. Several new commands are available and some existing commands have additional features.

New commands

Table 2-4 “New MPE/iX Commands” lists and briefly describes the new commands. For detailed information on each command, refer to the MPE/iX Commands Reference Manual, Volumes I & II (32650-60115).

Table 2-4 New MPE/iX Commands

Command Name	Description
`ALTFILE`	Alters a file's attributes such as the UID and GID of a file, directory, MPE group or account (except that the GID may not be altered for MPE groups or accounts).
`CHDIR`	Changes the current working directory to any directory, including MPE groups and accounts.
`DISKUSE`	Displays disk space usage, in sectors, for one or more directories or a directory subtree.
`NEWDIR`	Creates a hierarchical directory anywhere the user has permission.
`NEWLINK`	Creates a link to a file, group, account, directory, or root.
`PURGEDIR`	Deletes HFS directories (does not delete MPE groups or accounts).
`PURGELINK`	Removes a link.
`SETCLOCK`	Alters the system time or system time zone.
`SHOWCLOCK`	Displays information about the system date and time.

Enhanced commands

Table 2-5 “Enhanced MPE Commands” lists and briefly describes each enhanced command. For detailed information, refer to Chapter 2 of the MPE/iX Commands Reference Manual, Volumes I & II (32650-60115).

Table 2-5 Enhanced MPE Commands

Command Name	Summary of Changes
`ALTSEC`	Changes access permissions for HFS directories.
`ALTUSER`	Incrementally adds or subtracts user capabilities and modifies the user ID (UID).
`BUILD`	Supports HFS syntax for permanent files. Supports byte-stream files.
`COPY`	Copies files with HFS names. You can copy such files to and from HFS directories or MPE groups.
`FILE`	Supports byte-stream files, and the `filereference` parameter has been enhanced to support HFS pathnames.
`LISTACCT`	Adds the `FORMAT` parameter to provide a choice of several display formats.
`LISTEQ`	Displays file equations with HFS pathnames.
`LISTF`	Several new formats have been added.
`LISTFILE`	Traverses an HFS directory tree.
`LISTGROUP`	Adds the `FORMAT` parameter to provide a choice of several display formats.
`LISTUSER`	Adds the `FORMAT` parameter to provide a choice of several display formats.
`NEWACCT`	Provides the `GID` and `UID` parameters to add a group ID (GID) to the group database and the user ID of the account manager to the user database.
`NEWUSER`	Provides the `UID` parameter to add a user ID to the user database.
`PLISTF` (UDC)	Name changed from `LISTF` to `PLISTF`.
`PRINT`	Supports HFS file names.
`PURGE`	Supports HFS file names and wildcards.
`RENAME`	Supports HFS file names and renames across account boundaries.
`RUN`	Supports execution of HFS-named program files.
`SAVE`	Allows saving of HFS-named temporary domain files into permanent domain.
`SHOWPROC`	Shows processes that belong to a workgroup through the `WG=` keyword.
`STORE`	Stores HFS directories and files in HFS directories.
`RESTORE`	Restores HFS files and directories.
`VSTORE`	Verifies HFS files.

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