HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 308)

How to Use REPLACE BLOCK
Page Mode Editing
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How to Use REPLACE
BLOCK
Study the following pages to see an example of using the REPLACE
BLOCK command.
1. You’re editing a file that contains the following lines:
1 I am the very model
2 of a modern Major-General,
3 I've information vegetable,
4 animal, and mineral,
5 I know the kings of England,
6 and I quote the fights historical,
7 From Marathon to Waterloo,
8 in order categorical;
9 I'm very well acquainted too
10 with matter mathematical,
11 I understand equations,
12 both the simple and quadratical,
13 About binomial theorem
14 I'm teeming with a lot of news--
15 With many cheerful facts
16 about the square of the hypotenuse.
17 I'm very good at integral
18 and differential calculus,
19 I know the scientific names
20 of beings animalculous;
.
.
.
65 For my military knowlege,
66 though I'm plucky and adventury,
67 Has only been brought down
68 to the beginning of the century;
69 But still in matters vegetable,
70 animal, and mineral,
71 I am the very model
72 of a modern Major-General.
You type the command:
*REPLACE BLOCK ALL
to put the terminal in page mode and print every line in the file, one
block at a time, on the screen. The default number of lines in a block is
16. You can change the block size to a number between 1 and 20 by
using the BLOCK option of the SET command. (See the SET command,