1/21/85  forum request:  print, pr, p

Syntax:  p {trans_specs} {-control_args}


Function:
prints specified transactions on the terminal.


Arguments:
trans_specs
   are transaction specifiers which determine the transactions to be
   printed.  Use the forum request "help trans_specs" for more
   information on transaction specifiers.  If no transaction specifiers
   are supplied, the unprocessed transaction will be printed if there
   is one, otherwise the current transaction will be printed.


Control arguments:
-by_chain
   specifies that transactions are to be grouped by transaction chain.
-fill, -fi
   specifies that transactions are to be filled before being printed.
-include_deleted, -idl
   selects transactions even if they have been deleted. See "Notes"
   below. Default is -only_non_deleted.
-initial
   selects only transactions which are at the beginning of transaction
   chains.
-line_length LENGTH, -ll LENGTH
   fills the transaction to the specified line length.  The default
   is 72 columns unless a different value was given with the
   -output_line_length or -line_length control argument to the forum
   command.


-meeting meeting_name, -mtg meeting_name
   indicates that the specified transactions are to be selected from
   the meeting_name meeting.  The default is to select transactions
   from the current meeting.
-no_fill, -nfi
   suppresses filling of transactions.  (Default)
-only_deleted, -odl
   select only deleted transactions. See "Notes" below. Default is
   -only_non_deleted.
-only_non_deleted, -ondl
   select only non-deleted transactions. (Default)
-reverse, -rv
   causes transactions to be printed in the reverse order that they
   were given in the transaction specifier.


-trailer_format TYPE, -tfmt TYPE
   specifies the format of the trailer line printed by the print
   and write requests after each transaction.   TYPE must be one of:

   none
      no trailer is printed.
   number, nb
      a trailer containing the transaction number is printed.
   more
      a trailer containing the transaction number is printed.  If there
      is a subsequent transaction in the same chain, "(more)" is
      also printed.
   references, refs
      a trailer containing the transaction number and the numbers of
      the previous and next transaction is printed.  (Default)


List of transaction specification control arguments:
-after DT, -af DT
   selects transactions entered on or after the the date specified.
   The time of day is ignored.
-after_time DT, -aft DT
   selects transactions entered after the date_time specified.
-before DT, -be DT
   selects transactions entered before the date specified. The time
   of day is ignored.
-before_time DT, -bet DT
   selects transactions entered before the date_time specified.
-between DT1 DT2, -bt DT1 DT2
   selects transactions entered between the dates specified,
   inclusive.  The times of day are ignored.


-between_time DT1 DT2, -btt DT1 DT2
   selects transactions entered between the date_times specified,
   inclusive.
-date DT, -dt DT
   selects transactions entered on the day specified.
-from Person_id, -fm Person_id
   selects transactions entered by the participant named Person_id.
-subject /regexp/, -sj /regexp/
   selects transactions whose subjects match the given regular
   expression.
-text /regexp/, -tx /regexp/
   selects transactions whose text match the given regular
   expression.


Notes:
In order to print a deleted transaction, the user must either be the
chairman of the meeting, or the author of the deleted transaction.


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Historical Background

This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated
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as a contribution to computer science knowledge.  
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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