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- EDIT (1.3, 2.x, 3.x) (Located in the C: Directory)
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- SYNOPSIS
- An AmigaDOS line editor.
-
- FORMAT
- EDIT [FROM] fromname [TO] toname [WITH] withname
- [VER] vername [OPT W chars or WIDTH chars] [OPT P lines
- or PREVIOUS lines]
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-
-
- EXPLANATION
-
- Unless you grew up with UNIX and really dig line
- editors you should really try a different program (even
- Ed) before you dive into Edit.
-
-
- What does set Edit apart from Ed (and most other text
- editors) is that it is able to edit binary files and it
- can execute a predefined list of line editor commands.
-
- Please note that starting with version 2 of Ed you
- can do the same thing, so there is really no need to keep
- both of these programs hanging around on your system
- disk.
-
-
- KEYWORDS
-
- FROM
- EDIT requires the FROM keyword. This will tell EDIT
- which file to edit. This filename must exist. EDIT will
- not create the file for you like Ed will.
-
- TO
- This will tell edit where to save the file to once
- you decide to finish. If this is the second command in
- your arguement, you do not need the TO keyword.
-
- EDIT is limited in the fact that it will not
- overwrite a file that already exists. If the TO filename
- is the same as the FROM filename then instead of
- overwriting the FROM filename it will be save the
- original as :t/edit.backup. The file you are working on
- then gets named and saved as the FROM filename.
-
- WITH
- This specifies a file which will be used as input to
- EDIT's command options. The contents of WITH must be a
- series of valid options for it to work. If WITH is the
- third argument in an EDIT command line, the keyword is
- optional. If you don't use this keyword you must manually
- input your parameters.
-
- Due to the huge scope of available commands you
- should consult your Amiga System manual on how to
- configure EDIT.
-
- If there is enough of an interest I will write a full
- tutorial on how to configure EDIT.
-
- VER
- This lets you specify where to send the output of
- EDIT to. You can send the output to any logical device
- including PRT: to print it.
-
- OPT W or WIDTH
- OPT P or PREVIOUS
- This lets you set the actual physical size of EDIT.
- WIDTH lets you set the actual line length. PREVIOUS lets
- you designate how many lines will be kept in EDIT's
- history buffer.
-
- The default for line length is 120 characters and the
- default history buffer is 40 lines. If you multiply the
- WIDTH by the PREVIOUS you will get the exact amount of
- RAM you need to reserve as a work buffer. This amount can
- be set with the STACK command.
-
- If you set the OPT W and OPT P options, you must use
- the OPT keyword with the W or P letters.
-
-
-
- EXAMPLES
-
- 1. To edit a file called MyText in the default
- directory:
-
- EDIT MyText
-
- 2. To edit a file called MyText and to save it under
- a file called YourText that is 5000 lines long:
-
- EDIT FROM MyText TO YourText OPT P5000
-
- 3. To edit a file called MyText and to use the editor
- commands located in the edit.prefs file (which you
- created earlier). The data will then be saved as
- YourText. And, to send all the messages and verifications
- from EDIT to your printer while setting the number of
- lines to 50 and a line width as 175:
-
- EDIT FROM MyText TO YourText WITH edit.prefs VER
- PRT: OPT W175 OPT P50
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- See also:
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- STACK
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