The general format for GDE commands is:

    command [/object-type] [object-name] [/qualifier]
    

where:

    
    object-type: Indicates whether the command operates on a /N[AME] space, /R[EGION], 
	or /S[EGMENT].
	object-name: Specifies the name of the N[AME] space, R[EGION], or S[EGMENT]. 
	Objects of different types may have the same name. 
	Name spaces may include the wildcard operator (*) as a suffix.
	/qualifier: Indicates an object qualifier.
    

The format description for each individual command specifies required qualifiers for that command.

The @, EXIT, HELP, LOG, QUIT, SETGD, and SPAWN commands do not use this general format. For the applicable format, refer to the section explaining each of these commands.

Comments on the command line may be delimited by an exclamation mark (!).

	Warning
	An exclamation mark not enclosed in quotation marks ("") causes GDE to ignore the rest of that input line.