HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 82)

Typing Several Commands on One Line
EDIT Command Summary
058061 Tandem Computers Incorporated 4–3
Example
Suppose an EDIT file named BEN contains the following lines:
1 A little neglect
2 may breed mischief:
3 for want of a nail
4 the shoe was lost;
5 for want of a shoe
6 the horse was lost;
7 for want of a horse
8 the rider was lost.
You can edit this file by going through the EDIT program command
execution cycle:
Start the EDIT program
Enter an editor command at the EDIT prompt
Wait for the command to execute
Continue to enter an editor command at the EDIT prompt until you exit
from the EDIT program
For example:
2> EDIT BEN
TEXT EDITOR - T9601B30 - (08MAR87)
CURRENT FILE IS $WORK.FICTION.BEN
*DELETE 1 2
1 A little neglect
2 may breed mischief:
*JOIN ALL WIDTH 39
3 for want of a nail the shoe was lost;
5 for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
7 for want of a horse the rider was lost;
*EXIT
3>
Deletes lines 1 and 2,
prompts for command
Starts EDIT on file
named BEN, prompts
for command
Joins all lines to width 39,
prompts for command
Exits EDIT and returns to
the command interpreter