EDIT Subcommands-OVERLAY r PRESERVEr In addition to using the OVERLAY in the normal way, you may
also issue the OVERLAY subcommand with no operands. The next-line you
enter is treated as overlay data. To cancel the overlay request, press
the Erase Input key and then the Enter key.
PRESERVE Use the PRESERVE subcommand to save the settings of various EDIT
subcommands until a subsequent RESTORE subcommand is issued. The format
of the PRESERVE subcommand is: r I PREserve L- Settings are saved for the following subcommands: CASE Ff!ODE LINEMODE None.
PROMPT LONG PROMPT RECFf! SERIAL SHORT TABSET TRUNe VERIFY ZONE Use the subcommand to change the prompting increment for input
line numbers when you are using line-number editing. The format of the PROMPT subcommand is: r I I PROMPT , I L- , r , , ,n , I 11QI , L J
n specifies the prompting increment; the default value is 10. The
value of n should not exceed 32r767.
When you issue the PROf!PT subcommand with no operands, the current
setting is displayed. 240 CMS Command and f!acro Reference

EDIT Subcommands-QUIT, RECFM QUIT Use the QUIT subcommand to terminate the current editing session and
leave the previous copy ox ttte if any, intact on the disk. The
format of the QUIT subcommand is: .-- I QUI'! L- 1. You can use the QUIT subcommand when you have made a global change that introduced errors into your file; or whenever you discover
that you have made errors in editing a file and want to cancel your
editing session.
If a SAVE subcommand or automatic save request has been issued. the
file remains as it was when last written.
2. The subcommand is a convenient way to terminate an edit
session when you enter an incorrect filename on the EDIT command
line, or when you edit a file merely to examine, but not to change,
its contents.
The CMS ready message indicates that control has been returned to CMS. RECFI\,1! Use the RECFM subcommand to indicate to the editor whether the record
format of the file is fixed-length or variable-length, or to display the
current RECFM setting. The format of the RECFM subcommand is: r I r , I RECfm 'PI 1111 , ., L J __________________________________________________________ -J F indicates fixed-length records.
v indicates variable-length records.
1. V is assumed by default for all new EXEC, LISTING, FREEFORT, VSBDAT!, and SCRIPT files. Usually, a format file
occupies a smaller amount of disk space because trailing blanks are
deleted from each line before it is written onto disk. When variable-length VSBDATA files are written to disk, however,
trailing blanks are not truncated (to allow VSBDATA file to span
records) .
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