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COMPARISON OF RISE AND EDIT/3000 [ HP RPG/XL Utilities-Part 2 RISE ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


HP RPG/XL Utilities-Part 2 RISE

Appendix B  COMPARISON OF RISE AND EDIT/3000 

RISE and EDIT/3000 are in many respects similar editors.  There are
significant differences between them, however.  Below is a list of
contrasting features that new RISE users, who are accustomed to
EDIT/3000, will find helpful.

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|                    RISE Features               |            EDIT/3000 Features            |
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|    1. Line and Block Modes.                    | Line mode only.                          |
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|    2. No delimiters between parameters.        | Delimiters between parameters.           |
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|    3. Only capital letters accepted.           | Capital and lower case letters accepted. |
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|    4. KSAM work file.                          | Extra data segments in addition to a     |
|                                                | work file.                               |
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|    5. Only 1 command accepted at a time.       | Multiple commands allowed.               |
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|    6. No quiet mode.                           | Optional quiet.                          |
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|    7. UNDEL command to recover deletions.      | No delete recovery.                      |
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|    8. PRINT ALL prints offline with spacing    | LIST ALL, OFFLINE prints offline.        |
|       between changes in column 6 (form type). |                                          |
|       LIST ALL OFF prints offline without      |                                          |
|       spacing.                                 |                                          |
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|    9. HELP command replaces.                   | XPLAIN command.                          |
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|   10. MOVE command replaces.                   | GATHER command.                          |
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|   11. RENUM command replaces.                  | GATHER ALL command.                      |
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|   12. GET command replaces.                    | USE command.                             |
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|   13. Command must be completed on 1 line      | Ampersand (&) used to continue a command |
|       (can't exceed 50 characters in length).  | on next line.                            |
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