Sets a CLI variable

Displays the current value of a CLI variable

Sets the default for a CLI variable

Displays the current values of all the CLI variables in a debugger namespace. Using dset with no argument displays all the CLI variables in the global name space.

The dset command sets the value of a CLI variable to a string. With no new value, the current value is returned. If no variable is specified, all variables in the global namespace are displayed with their values.

For a list of ProductNameGeneric variables and their meanings, type help variables in the Command Line window. ProductNameGeneric variables are described in more depth in Chapter 5, "TotalView Variables".

The TotalView state variables are divided into several TCL namespaces. The most commonly used variables are in the global namespace. So to view the LINES_PER_SCREEN variable, for example, which is in the global namespace, you simply enter:

For the other namespaces, the namespace for a variable must be included in the name. So to view the platform variable, which is in the TV:: namespace, you would enter:

To view all variables in a namespace, enter the namespace name including the trailing ::. For example:

Wild cards can be used to view a subset of the variables. The * wildcard matches any string, including “:”, so to view all variables in all namespaces, you could enter:

To view all variables with the string “font” in them you could enter:

When you press a default button in one of the tabs of the File > Preferences dialog box, TotalView reinitializes the settings to their default values. This happens even if you have set oneor more values in your tvdrc file. Settings in tvdrc do not change what TotalView thinks the default is, so it still changes the settings back to their defaults for the current session. However, the next time you invoke TotalView, TotalView will again use the values in your tvdrc.

You can tell TotalView that the values set in your tvdrc file are the defaults if you use the ‑set_as_default option. Now when you press a default button, TotalView will use the tvdrc value instead of the product-defined defaults.

If your TotalView administrator sets up a global .tvdrc file, TotalView reads values from that file and merges them with your preferences and other settings. If the value in the .tvdrc file changes, TotalView ignores the change because it has already set a value in your local preferences file. If the administrator uses the -set_as_default option, you can be told to press the default button to get the changes. If, however, the administrator doesn't use this option, the only way to get changes is by deleting your preferences file.