HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 70)

Renumbering to Add More Lines
Revising Text in Your File
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If you want to add text between line numbers 24.006 and 24.007, you cannot
do it because you’ve exhausted EDIT’s decimal numbering capability.
There are no line numbers between 24.006 and 24.007. You simply
renumber the file to solve this problem. You can renumber the entire file, or
you can start renumbering from line number 24.007. If you renumber this
file from 24.007 and start the new line numbers at 50 (the command is
NUMBER 24.007/24.011 TO 50), the file looks like the following:
24.005 I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the
24.006 representative of our country;
50 like those among men who live by sharping
51 and robbing, he is generally poor, and
52 often very lousy.
53 The turkey is a much more respectable bird,
54 and withal a true original native of America.
You now have plenty of line numbers for new text between line number
24.006 and line number 50.