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MPE V to MPE XL: Getting Started

Answers to Exercises 

   1.  PRINT FILE=LUCY
       or
       PRINT LUCY

   2.  PRINT FILE=LUCY;START=2;END=9
       or
       PRINT LUCY,,2,9

   3.  PRINT FILE=LUCY;START=10;END=10
       or
       PRINT LUCY,,10,10
       or
       PRINT FILE=LUCY;START=-1 if the file is only 10 lines long.

   4.  PRINT FILE=LUCY;START=5;END=5
       or
       PRINT LUCY,,5,5

   5.  PRINT FILE=LUCY;OUT=*PRINTER
       or
       PRINT LUCY,*PRINTER

   6.  PRINT FILE=LUCY;END=9;START=6;OUT=*PRINTER
       or
       PRINT LUCY,*PRINTER,6,9
       (Note:  in the first solution, the order of the parameters is
       unimportant.)

   7.  PRINT FILE=LUCY;START=-3
       The minus (-) specified before the number 3 caused only the last
       three lines to print (on the screen by default).

   8.  (example of a correct answer)
       CHGROUP NEWGROUP
       CHGROUP

   9.  COPY FROM=LUCY;TO=RICKY
       or
       COPY LUCY,RICKY

  10.  a.  COPY FROM=RICKY;TO=LUCY
       or
       COPY RICKY,LUCY
       PURGE OLD? NO
       NO COPY WAS DONE (CIERR 9113)

       b.  COPY FROM=ricky;to=lucy
       or
       COPY ricky,lucy
       PURGE OLD? yes 
       :
       What happened?  The file RICKY overwrote the file LUCY.

       c.  PRINT file=lucy or PRINT lucy

  11.  COPY FROM=ricky;TO=lucy;no
       or
       COPY ricky,lucy;no
       NO COPY WAS DONE (CIERR 9113)

  12.  COPY FROM=RICKY;TO=LUCY;YES
       or
       COPY RICKY,LUCY;YES

  13.  PRINT FILE=LUCY
       or
       PRINT LUCY

  14.  NEWGROUP LABS
       COPY FROM=LUCY.HOME;TO=LUCY.LABS
       CHGROUP LABS
       PRINT FILE=LUCY or
       NEWGROUP LABS
       COPY LUCY,LUCY.LABS
       CHGROUP LABS
       PRINT LUCY

  15.  Example:
       COPY FROM=RICARDO;TO=RICARDO.HOME
       CHGROUP
       PRINT FILE=RICARDO
       or
       COPY RICARDO,RICARDO.HOME
       CHGROUP
       PRINT RICARDO

  16.  CHGROUP LABS
       CHGROUP

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