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      Special Command Tags
Overview
Special command file tags (enclosed in square brackets) are used to modify paths and
filenames for specific I/O uses in ProvideX. They may include a series of semicolon-
separated parameters to be processed at run time. Some of these tags are supported only
in specific operating environments.
Important: The square brackets enclosing special tags are part of the syntax. Other
square brackets in syntax examples indicate that elements are optional.
This chapter covers the following special command tags:
[DB2] DB2 Support, p.766
Windows & WindX.
[DDE] Dynamic Data Exchange, p.772
Windows & WindX.
[DLL] Custom File Access, p.774
Windows & WindX.
[LIB] Program Library, p.777
Windows only.
[MYSQL] MySQL InnoDB Support, p.779
Any system except DOS
[OCI] Connect to Oracle Server, p.782
Windows, some UNIX/Linux.
[ODB] Open DataBase, p.787
Windows & WindX.
[RPC] Remote Process Control, p.793
Any system except DOS
[TCP] Transmission Control Protocol, p.795
Any system except DOS
[WDX] Direct Action to Client Machine, p.797           Any platform via WindX.
Note: [WDX] specialty commands can only be used when running under WindX. You can
also prefix some (but not all) of the other specialty command tags with a [WDX] tag to
direct the action to the WindX client machine instead of the server.
WindX, the ProvideX thin-client GUI screen handler, is used to give a Windows GUI
look to character-based applications, optimize a network's use of different platforms,
and provide remote processing through serial and/or TCP/IP communications.