Can you give an example of which param to use to not retrieve off chain items?

Question

what exactly does each one of these parameters mean when using it with subscribe? 
streams-items,streams-items-local,streams-keys,streams-keys-local,streams-publishers,streams-publishers-local,streams-retrieve

Answer 1

If you are using MultiChain Enterprise, you can use the subscribe command like this:

subscribe stream1 true keys,items

If you don't include retrieve in the last comma-delimited parameter, off-chain items in this stream won't be automatically retrieved from the network.

The streams-* options you listed are for the autosubscribe runtime parameter, not the subscribe command.