HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 146)

GET Command
EDIT Command Summary
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2. This second example illustrates using a non-EDIT-format disk file with
the GET command.
*SET INLEN 128
*GET TEST
NAME THE NEW FILE: NEWTEST
*
Omits the PUT keyword
EDIT reads 128-byte records from the disk file named TEST until the
end-of-file. The data is put into the EDIT file named NEWTEST.
Adding Text From a Nondisk Device or Non-EDIT-Format Disk File
The commands:
*SET INLEN 100
*GET $TAPE NUM 30/50 TO 995.01
*
causes EDIT to read 100-byte physical records from $TAPE and add the
thirtieth through fiftieth records to the current file beginning at line number
995.01.
Tip When you issue a GET command and filename1 is an EDIT-format file,
EDIT checks the validity of the file format. If EDIT detects any validity
errors, it prints the message:
THIS FILE IS INVALID. DO YOU WANT TO RECOVER?
If this happens to you, see the recovery procedure in Appendix B, “EDIT
Error Recovery Procedure.”