HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 69)

Renumbering to Add More Lines
Revising Text in Your File
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When you are adding a block of text into an existing file, you might need to
create a gap in the numbering sequence to accommodate adding the new
text. To renumber lines 8 through 17 and start the new line numbers at line
number 50, type:
*NUMBER 8/17 TO 50
*LIST ALL
1 Jack and Jill
2 went up a hill
3 To fetch a pail
4 of water.
5 Jack fell down and
6 broke his crown
7 And Jill came
50 tumbling after.
51 Jack and Jill
52 went up a hill
53 To fetch a pail
54 of water.
55 Jack and Jill
56 Jack and Jill
57 Jack and Jill
58 One shoe on and
59 one shoe off,
*
Renumbering to Add
More Lines
Line numbers in your file range from 0 to 99999.999. When you do a great
deal of editing on a file, you may find yourself with a series of line numbers
like the following:
24.005 I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the
24.006 representative of our country;
24.007 like those among men who live by sharping
24.008 and robbing, he is generally poor, and
24.009 often very lousy.
24.010 The turkey is a much more respectable bird,
24.011 and withal a true original native of America.