The ADD command inserts a new name, region, or segment into the Global Directory.

The format of the ADD command is one of the following:

    A[DD]-N[AME] name-space -R[EGION]=region-name
    A[DD]-R[EGION] region-name -D[YNAMIC]=segment-name [-REGION-qualifier...]    
    A[DD]-S[EGMENT] segment-name [-SEGMENT-qualifier...] -F[ILE_NAME]=file-name
    
    

The ADD command requires specification of an object-type and object-name. GDE supplies default values from the templates for qualifiers not explicitly supplied in the command.

Name spaces and file-names are case-sensitive; other objects are not case-sensitive.

Example:

    
    GDE> add -segment temp -f=scratch
    

This command creates a segment-name TEMP and maps it to the file scratch.dat in the current working directory. However, if scratch is an environment variable, GT.M finds the file using the translation of that environment variable.