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Welcome to EDIT
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What This Manual
Is About
The EDIT program provides two editors—EDIT, a line editor, and EDIT VS,
a screen editor. The emphasis of this manual is on EDIT. The manual
introduces you to the features and capabilities of EDIT, describes the many
EDIT commands and their ranges, and provides information on creating
and using EDIT files. For those users who wish to use EDIT VS, a
description of page mode editing follows the EDIT material.
Who Should Use
This Manual
This manual assumes that you know how to:
Log on to the Tandem system
Start EDIT from the application that is running on your terminal
If you need to know how to log on, read the appropriate paragraphs in the
GUARDIAN 90 Operating System Utilities Reference Manual or ask a
knowledgable person to help you.
If there is an application running on your terminal and you do not know
how to start the EDIT program from this application, ask a knowledgable
person to help you.
The user’s guide sections in the beginning portion of the manual are
designed to introduce new users to text editing and the more commonly
used commands of EDIT. Experienced users can read through the
introduction then move directly to the reference material discussing EDIT
commands and ranges in Sections 4 and 5.
How to Use
This Manual
Use the Table of Contents and the Index to guide you to the appropriate
section or page number.
Section 1, “Introduction to EDIT,” contains an overview of the EDIT
program including a description of the line editing concept, creating an
EDIT file, how to use the line editor, typing EDIT commands, a brief
explanation of ranges, and how to exit the EDIT program.
Section 2, “Adding and Displaying Text,” describes how to use the ADD
and LIST commands to add and display the text in your file.