This command generates diagnostic descriptions of taxa. You may specify "preset" characters to be included in all the descriptions: specify NONE if you want the diagnostic characters to be selected entirely by the program. Each diagnostic description will (if possible) differ in at least DIAGLEVEL characters from the full description of every other INCLUDEd taxon (not just the taxa specified in this command) (see SET DIAGLEVEL, INCLUDE TAXA). The current MATCH setting (see SET MATCH) is ignored: the setting used is almost equivalent to O U I, but see SET DIAGTYPE. The characters are selected from the AVAILABLE characters (see Keywords). See also OUTPUT DIAGNOSE, DISPLAY CHARACTERORDER SEPARATE.
Syntax of command line DIAGNOSE ( t 1 t 2 ...) c 1 c 2 ...
where t 1, t 2 ... are taxon numbers, ranges or keywords, and c 1, c 2 ... are character numbers, ranges or keywords. If there is only one taxon number, range or keyword, the parentheses may be omitted.