You enter NCP commands as keywords and parameters separated by spaces or tabs. Use the standard continuation line convention--a hyphen as the last character in the line--to continue a long command to the next line. If the first character of a line is an exclamation point (!), the line is ignored by NCP as a comment line. Hyphens within and at the end of a comment line are ignored. Lines beginning with an exclamation point, however, are not ignored if they follow a command line ending with a hyphen. When entering an NCP command, you can abbreviate any command verb, component keyword, or parameter name to its fewest unique letters.