12/01/86  list_db, ldb

Syntax:  ldb {-control_args}


Function:  lists information about the currently open data base.


Control arguments:
-long, -lg
   specifies that all available information about columns is to be
   listed.  This includes the name of the domain from which column
   values are derived and the PL/I-like declaration for this domain.
-names
   specifies that only table and column names are to be listed.
-pathname, -pn
   specifies that only the pathname of the data base, together with the
   opening mode, is to be listed.
-perm
   specifies that information pertaining only to tables that are a
   permanent part of the data base is to be listed.


-table STR, -tb STR
   specifies that information pertaining only to tables named in STR is
   to be listed.  STR is a list of permanent or temporary table names.
-table_names
   specifies that only table names are to be listed.
-temp
   specifies that information pertaining only to temporary tables is to
   be listed.


Notes:  Only one of the following may be chosen:  -table_names, -names,
or -long.


If -table is specified, all other controls except -long and -pathname
are ignored.


If no control arguments are specified, -pathname and -table_names are
assumed.


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Historical Background

This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated
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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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