### Starting and Stopping the dcecp Program

You can enter dcecp operations directly from your operating system prompt or from within the DCE control program. If you are performing just one or two simple dcecp operations, you can invoke them directly at the operating system prompt.

If you will be doing several operations, you can invoke the DCE control program and then enter operations at the dcecp prompt. This method offers several advantages.

· It is more efficient for multiple operations because dcecp is initialized once rather than for each separate operation.

· The program stores operations in a history facility so they can be recalled and reused.

· You avoid the extra keystrokes needed to precede each operation with the dcecp command.

The following example shows how to invoke the DCE control program and perform a directory operation.

% dcecp
dcecp> directory create /.:/hosts/appserver2
dcecp>

When you are through using the DCE control program, use the exit or quit operation to stop the program and return to the operating system prompt. The following example illustrates using the exit operation.

dcecp> exit
%

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