%HELP

By means of %HELP you can request information on the operation of AID. The following information is output to the selected medium: either all the AID commands or the selected command and its operands, or the selected error message with its meaning and possible responses.

• With info-target you specify the command on which you need further information or the AID message for which you want an explanation of its meaning and actions to be taken.

• With medium-a-quantity you specify to which output media AID is to output the required information. By means of this operand you temporarily disable a declaration made via %OUT.

Command	Operand
%H[ELP]	[info-target] [medium-a-quantity][,...]

%HELP provides information on all the operands of the selected command, i.e. all language-specific operands for symbolic debugging as well as all operands for machineoriented debugging. Refer to the relevant manual to see what is permitted for the language in which your program is written.

The AID messages have the message code format AID0n, while the AIDSYS messages have the format IDA0n. Both are queried using /HELP. In addition, in the current AID version the AID messages can be queried with In using the AID %HELP command, as before.

%HELP can only be entered as an individual command, i.e. it must not be contained in a command sequence or subcommand.

The %HELP command does not alter the program state.

tDDDDDDDDDDDDDh
info-target

gDDDDDDDDDDDDDu

designates a command or a message number about which information is to be output.
If this operand is omitted, AID outputs an overview of the AID commands with a brief description of each command, and of the AID message number range.

AID responds to a %HELP command containing an invalid info-target operand by issuing an error message. This is followed by the same overview as for a %HELP command without info-target. This overview can also be requested via the %H or %? entries.

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%AID | %AINT | %BASE | %CONT[INUE] | %C[ONTROL]
%DISASSEMBLE | %DA | %D[ISPLAY] | %DUMPFILE | %DF
%F[IND] | %H[ELP] | %IN[SERT] | %JUMP | %M[OVE]
%ON | %OUT | %OUTFILE | %Q[UALIFY]
%REM[OVE] | %R[ESUME] | %SD[UMP] | %SET
%SH[OW] | %STOP | %SYMLIB | %TITLE | %T[RACE]
In

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  %AID | %AINT | %BASE | %CONT[INUE] | %C[ONTROL]
  %DISASSEMBLE | %DA | %D[ISPLAY] | %DUMPFILE | %DF
  %F[IND] | %H[ELP] | %IN[SERT] | %JUMP | %M[OVE]
  %ON | %OUT | %OUTFILE | %Q[UALIFY]
  %REM[OVE] | %R[ESUME] | %SD[UMP] | %SET
  %SH[OW] | %STOP | %SYMLIB | %TITLE | %T[RACE]
  In
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The AID command names may be abbreviated as shown above.

In	designates the old message code of a message for which the meaning and possible responses are to be output. n is a 3-digit message number.

medium-a-quantity

defines the media via which information on the info-target is to be output.

If this operand is omitted and no declaration has been made using the %OUT command, AID works with the default value T=MAX. The specification { MIN | MAX | XMAX | XFLAT} has no effect with %HELP, but the syntax requires one of these two specifications.

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{T | H | Fn | P } = {MAX | MIN | XMAX | XFLAT }

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medium-a-quantity is described in full detail in the AID Core Manual (Related publications) [1].

T	Terminal output
H	Hardcopy output (includes terminal output and cannot be specified together with T)
Fn	File output
P	Output to SYSLST