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A Summary of Commands edExplain
UCS 1000 R4.2 Administration 585-313-507 Issue 3 April 2000 461
Description
The edExplain command edits the explanation text for one or more message
tags.
The following are environment variables for the edExplain command:
EDITOR
This is the program used to edit the explanation text. The default is vi.
EXPLAINDIR
This is the root directory of the explanation texts. The default is
/gendb/data/explain
VERBOSITY
If set to anything, edExplain will run verbosely.
An explanation file is basically a clear text file. Its contents are displayed as
is to the user when this explanation is requested. If it is a primary explanation
procedure (an explanation that the end user will want to reference by name),
it should begin with a line of the form:
<< {tag} [{tag}...] >>
This identifies the explanation or procedure and all its alternate names as
defined in the translation file $EXPLAINDIR/translateLst.