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TYPE                                                      CMS Transient command

Use the TYPE command to display all or part of a CMS file at the terminal in
either EBCDIC or the hexadecimal representation of the EBCDIC code.  The format
of the TYPE command is:
+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Type     | fn ft [fm|*] [1 rec1|* [*|recn]] [(options...[)]]                |
|          |                                                                  |
|          | options:                                                         |
|          |    HEX       COL 1|xxxxx-[lrexl|yyyyy]       MEMBER name|*       |
+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
where:

fn       is the filename of the file to be displayed.

ft       is the filetype of the file to be displayed.

fm       is the filemode of the file to be displayed.  If this field is
         omitted, the A-disk and its extensions are searched to locate the
         file.  If fm is specified as an asterisk (*), all disks are searched,
         and the first file found is displayed.

rec1     is the record number of the first record to be displayed.  This field
         cannot contain special characters.  If rec1 is greater than the number
         of records in the file, an error message is displayed.  If this field
         is omitted or entered as an asterisk (*), a record number of 1 is
         assumed.

recn     is the record number of the last record to be displayed.  This value
         cannot contain embedded commas.  If this field is not specified, is
         entered as an asterisk (*), or is greater than the number of records
         in the file, displaying continues until end of file is reached.

Options:

COL xxxxx-yyyyy
         displays only certain columns of each record.  xxxxx specifies the
         start column and yyyyy the end column of the field within the record
         that is to be displayed.  The string xxxxx-yyyyy may have a maximum of
         eight characters; additional characters are truncated.

         If columns are not specified, the entire record is displayed unless
         the filetype is LISTING, in which case the first character of each
         record is not displayed, since it is assumed to be a carriage control
         character.

HEX      displays the file in hexadecimal format.

MEMber [* | name]
         displays member(s) of a library. If the format of the file is MACLIB
         or TXTLIB, a MEMBER entry can be specified.  If an asterisk (*) is
         specified, all members of the library are displayed.  If a name is
         specified, only that particular member is displayed.


Usage Notes:

1.  If the HEX option is specified, each record can be displayed in its
    entirety; if not, no more than 130 characters of each record can be
    displayed.

Responses:

The file is displayed at the terminal according to the given specifications.
When you use the HEX option, each record is preceded by a header record:
   RECORD nnnnnnnnnn LENGTH=nnnnnnnnnn