07/13/87  display_anst

Syntax:  display_anst {channel_name} {-control_args}


Function: allows system administrators to display the Answer Table,
which contains information about interactive users.  The Answer Table
resides in >sc1>answer_table.


Arguments:
channel_name
   names a channels whose Answer Table entry is to be displayed.  A
   starname may be given to identify several channels.


Control arguments:
-active
   displays entries in Answer Table for active communications channels
   (channels that have been hung up, are listening for a user to dial
   up, are connected to a user (dialed), have logged in a user, or are
   attached to a running a process).  This is the default.
-all, -a
   displays all table entries.
-channel channel_name, -chn channel_name
   names a channel whose Answer Table entry is to be displayed.  The
   channel_name argument has the format described above.  The star
   convention is allowed.


-dial
   displays entries in Answer Table for dialed communications channels
   (channels that are connected to a user (dialed), have logged in a
   user, or are attached to a running process).
-in
   displays entries in Answer Table for logged in users.
-lock
   displays entries in Answer Table which are locked.
-name Person_id, -nm Person_id
   displays entry or entries associated with the given Person_id.
-no_header, -nhe
   suppresses display of the heading information contained at the
   beginning of the Answer Table.  By default, the heading is
   displayed.


-octal, -oc
   displays header and entries in an octal dump, as well as in
   interpretive format.
-pathname path, -pn path
   gives the pathname of the table to be displayed.  If omitted, the
   system Answer Table in >sc1>answer_table is used.


Notes:  The -all, -active, -dial, -in, -lock, -name and -channel
control arguments and the channel_name argument select entries to be
displayed.  If more than one is given, an entry is displayed if it
matches any of the conditions specified by the arguments.  If none are
given, the entries for all active communications channels are
displayed.


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Historical Background

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This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. 
Multics development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC (1963-1970),
renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership
of Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture 
for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent operating systems 
incorporated Multics principles.
Multics was distributed in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe , and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information Systems Inc., 
as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. .

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