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4 EDIT Command Summary
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Running the EDIT
Program
To run the EDIT program, you type EDIT at the command interpreter
prompt character. You can run the EDIT program in either interactive or
noninteractive mode. Interactive mode requires you to respond at the EDIT
prompt after EDIT executes each command. Noninteractive mode means
that EDIT executes commands from a command file while allowing you to
use the terminal in the meanwhile. The EDIT program can read from and
write to disk files, nondisk devices, and processes (as illustrated in
Figure 2).
Running the EDIT Program
Interactively
To run the EDIT program interactively, use the following EDIT command
syntax:
EDIT [ filename ] [ ! ] [ [ ;editorcommand ] ... ]
filename
is the name of an existing EDIT file or is the name of a new EDIT file
that you want to create. You can give a full file name or a partial file
name. (See “How EDIT Files Are Named” in Section 6 for details.) If
filename names a new file, the EDIT program asks you if it should
create the file. If you do not give a filename , the EDIT program
prompts you for one. (See “Adding Text to a New EDIT File” of the
ADD command, later in this section.)
!
tells the EDIT program to create an EDIT file named filename , if
filename does not already exist.
editorcommand
is an editor command.