HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 239)

Ordinal-Range Parameter
Range Summary
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This tells you that EDIT added line 14 from PIE to BIRD and that line 14
of PIE is now line 2.1 of BIRD. Remember, though, that line 14 (in
ordinal position) is the fifth line of PIE and is the line specified by the
NUM 5 parameter of this GET command. Now, when you list BIRD:
*LIST ALL
1 The king was in his counting-house
2 Counting all his money.
2.1 When the pie was opened,
3 The queen was in the parlor
3.1 Eating bread and honey.
3.2 The maid was in the garden
4 Hanging up the clothes.
4.1 Along came a blackbird
5 And snipped off her nose!
*
the GET command added the fifth line of PIE to the file, regardless of its
literal line number in PIE.