A DEC DATATRIEVE procedure is a phrase, statement, or group of statements stored in the data dictionary. A procedure is defined by the DEFINE PROCEDURE statement (see HELP DEFINE PROCEDURE). A procedure can be invoked by the following construct: :procedure-path Procedure-path is the dictionary path of a previously defined procedure (see HELP Path_name). The procedure invocation (:procedure-name) is replaced by the text in the procedure. You can also invoke a procedure by entering the keyword EXECUTE followed by the procedure name. To display a procedure definition, type: SHOW procedure-name To obtain the names of the defined procedures, type: SHOW PROCEDURES