MPE/iX System Utilities Reference Manual (32650-90882)

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7 EDIT/3000

The EDIT/3000 text editor lets you create and edit ASCII ﬁles. Speciﬁcally, you may insert,

delete, replace, modify and search for characters and strings of characters. You may run

EDIT/3000 in either of two modes, interactive or batch.

In an interactive session, you enter commands and text from an interactive terminal.

Messages and other output (such as prompt characters) from EDIT/3000 are listed on the

terminal.

In batch mode, commands and text records are supplied through a batch input medium

such as a jobstream or magnetic tape. Messages and output from EDIT/3000 are listed on

the standard output device, usually a line printer.

Operation

To invoke EDIT/3000 enter in interactive mode, enter:

EDITOR

The system responds with a message similar to the one below and displays the EDIT/3000

prompt, awaiting your commands:

HP32201A.07.17 EDIT/3000 Mon, Mar 28, 1994, 3:19 PM

For example, to create a new

work

ﬁle, you issue the ADD command and enter data. After

the data is entered you use the KEEP command to save it as a permanent ﬁle. For example:

/ADD

100 //

/KEEP

filename,unn

To modify an existing ﬁle, use the TEXT command to open it in EDIT/3000, make the

necessary modiﬁcations, and then use the KEEP command to save it. For example:

/TEXT FILE1