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• xshow will pop up a small window with one or more keywords and their values and will continuously update them. This is basically a very simple status GUI. One can make more complicated xshow instances. For instance, the NIRC2 status display is an xshow. xshow can show keywords from more than one service simultaneously.

• cshow will continuously show the keyword value, printing a new line whenever the value is updated and is a good way to monitor a changing situation. The options for cshow include -timestamp , which will give you a timestamp for the keyword change.

• gshow is not always available, it tends to be installed on newer machines only. It is a more modern and capable version of show and has many options. For services which have a keyword history monitor, gshow can display a history of the keyword values and even generate simple plots of the values over time.