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Command File Format

Command Files are just text files that contain the User responses to prompts from the Application Program. They have the default file extension .UIC. Comments are denoted by a ``!" character, the remainder of the line being ignored. Lines having a Comment character in column 1 are therefore ignored completely. Blank lines are significant however, since they represent a null response to a prompt (typically accepting the default value). Command Lines may span several lines within the file (each of which may have trailing comments), continuation being denoted by a ``-" character as the last significant character of the line (ignoring trailing spaces and comments). Multiple Responses may be specified on a single line, separated by spaces or commas.


Liz Buckle
Fri Jan 13 17:40:55 CST 1995