Menu Operations on the Terminal Monitor Frame
The following operations are available on the Interactive Terminal Monitor frame:
Go
Executes the query language statements and immediately begins displaying the results.
Resume
Displays the results of the last query language statements you executed (shows the previous output window, as it appeared when you exited the output window).
Complete
Executes the statements in the workspace, but does not display the results until all processing is completed. This command displays the end of the query's output.
Blank
Clears the workspace of any statements you have entered.
Edit
Edits the statements in the workspace with the standard system editor.
File
Calls the submenu of file operations to write the information in the window into a file or read information from an existing file.
OnError
Indicates whether errors terminate or continue the processing of SQL statements, and lets you change the setting.
LineEdit
Displays a submenu to insert, delete, split, or join lines in the input window.
Help
Gets help about this frame, including help about the syntax and usage of the interactive query language.
Quit
Leaves the Interactive Terminal Monitor.
The Edit operation writes the workspace contents to a temporary file and invokes your default system text editor on that temporary file. When you finish editing the temporary file and exit from the editor, the newly edited text in the workspace on the Interactive Terminal Monitor frame displays. You can then execute the statements or continue editing or adding text in the input window.
The LineEdit operation enables you to insert, delete, split, or join lines in the input window. When you select the LineEdit operation, you access a submenu that displays the following line editing functions:
InsertLine
Inserts a blank line above the line on which the cursor is positioned.
DeleteLine
Deletes the line on which the cursor is positioned.
SplitLine
Divides a line into two lines at the point where the cursor is positioned.
JoinLines
Moves the next line to the end of the line on which the cursor is positioned.
Help, End
Perform standard operations.
The Help operation includes complete summaries of how to use statements in the particular database language you have chosen. If available for your terminal, you can use the key mapped to the string‑search function (the Windows Find operation) to search for database language keywords to find helpful hints on syntax and usage.