Supplementary Menus

Supplementary Menus

Inst offers three supplementary menus that you can use to augment Main menu functions:

the View Commands menu
the Administrative Commands menu
the Interrupt menu

The View Commands menu (shown in Figure 5-1 on page 66) contains selections that let you control information displays during the session. For example, a listing of distribution software normally includes all of the products that the distribution contains. Using the View Commands menu, you can request a list of the new software products only.

The Administrative Commands menu (shown in Figure 5-2 on page 73) contains two types of selections: commands that let you display or adjust conditions on the target system, such as the mount and umount commands; and commands that let you control Inst operations, such as the recalculate command.

The Interrupt menu (shown in Figure 5-3 on page 81) is used to suspend command processing. It is rarely necessary to display this menu during a session, and Inst displays it only under unusual error conditions.