HP 3000 Manuals

MPE V to MPE XL: Getting Started

Lesson 2:  Printing Portions of Files 

If you want to display only a portion of a file on your terminal screen,
you can specify the lines you want with the ;START= and ;END= parameters.

To print lines 5 through 20 of the file MYFILE to the terminal screen,
enter:

     PRINT FILE=MYFILE;START=5;END=20

or

     PRINT MYFILE,,5,20

Exercises 

2.   Display lines 2 through 9 of the file LUCY on your terminal screen.

3.   Display line 10 of the file LUCY.

4.   Display line 5 of the file LUCY.

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