ACCESS - the user interface to the file system in TSS.

Description:

ACCESS lets you deal with the file system. It lets you create, modify the attributes of, display information about, release, or erase and release files or catalogs. It even lets you access or deaccess files.

There are individual explain files for most of the ACCESS functions, e.g. "expl access mf". The information given in this and the accompanying explain files deviates from what is documented in the "TSS General Information Manual", owing to changes made for the UW Tools package.

Usually you use ACCESS by invoking it with command arguments. When finished, ACCESS will exit, possibly after displaying an error message. However, if you call ACCESS with no arguments, it will return with the prompt

function ?

To this, you may respond with either a two letter ACCESS function and its arguments, or an "!" followed by any TSS command. When the ACCESS function or TSS command is done, ACCESS returns to the "function ?" level. To get out, enter a null line or press BREAK.

For some functions, typing only the two letter name with no arguments causes ACCESS to begin prompting you for arguments. For details on this mode, see the manual.

If you end an input line with a comma, ACCESS prompts for more input. For example, you could start a command with

acce mc user/mycat/ read/joeuser/,

Then ACCESS would prompt for more input, letting you enter more lines (for example, more permissions on the catalog).

Notes:

The ACCESS command distributed with the UW Tools package lets you delimit arguments with spaces as well as commas. For example, the stock ACCESS command might require:

acce mc,user/mycat,read/joeuser/

while the UW Tools version allows

acce mc user/mycat read/joeuser/

See Also:

expl access af

expl access cc

expl access cf

expl access df

expl access efso

expl access lc

expl access ls

expl access mc

expl access mf

expl access pc

expl access perm

expl access pf

expl access rc

expl access rf

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