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USE

1984 Version of ANSI Standard

USE command

See Use for formal definition.

  1. Result Right Arrow Devnam.
  2. Null string ("") Right Arrow Result.
  3. Search the Openlist for the device named in Devnam.
    If not found, trap execution. Otherwise, perform the following operations:
    1. Set $IO to the device named in Devnam, and make this device the current device for all input and output.
    2. If Result contains any device parameters, find the device named in Devnam in the Devicelist, and change those parameters which appear in Result to their new value from Result.
    3. Perform any initialization procedures for the device named in Devnam according to its device parameters in Devicelist.
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