Current Page: NeXtMidas User's Guide System Operation Basic Command Form
| ### Basic Command Form NeXtMidas commands begin with a command name and may be followed by parameters (specifying the arguments required by the command) and switches. The command name specifies which command to execute. The name is case-insensitive and may be abbreviated, but only if the abbreviation is not ambiguous with any other command. For example, `conf` invokes the `CONFIDENCE` command and `config` invokes `CONFIGURE`. To see a complete list of NeXtMidas commands in the command dictionary, type `MENU` at the NeXtMidas shell prompt:
    nM> menu
After each command, the letter I, P or M designates the command as an Intrinsic, Primitive or Macro. To see a full explanation of a specified command (i.e., syntax, parameter requirements, command operation), type `EXPLAIN <``command>` after the NeXtMidas prompt:
    nM> explain <command>
or
    nM> expl <command>