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Control Commands

Control commands include those for:

controlling parallel operations: parallel
writing program information: log, (save session to an ASCII file) script (record a set of commands), save (save commands needed to restore the current program state), autosave (automatically run the save command at specified intervals);
controlling program output: chatter (control the amount of program output), query (give an automatic response to prompts), tclout and tcloutr (create Tcl variables for manipulation in scripts)
displaying status information: show, time, and version
ending the session: exit (or quit)
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