October 1, 1979 FRESS COMMANDS LOCATE
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L Locate (Pattern Scan) _____________________________
LOCATE searches the file for the first occurrence of the
without regard to upper and lower case pattern specified, ________________________________________, and
moves the display to the start of the matched string.


Locate <lit>° <wind>°


<lit>...the literal character string to be located (must be less
than 253 characters)
MODIFIERS _________
LOCATE may be used with the modifiers "B", "L", or "M", in any
combination or order:
Backwards B..._________: The search will be backwards towards the top of
the file (up to 8000 characters).
Long L...____: The entire file will be searched.
Mixed Mode M...__________: The case of each character must match exactly
(rather than disregarding case).
VARIANTS ________
LB L B __ _ocate _ackwards
LL L L __ _ocate _ong (to bottom of area)
LM L M __ _ocate in _ixed mode (take specified character case
literally, without folding)
LBL LLB L B L ___,___ _ocate _ackwards _ong (to top of area)
LBM LMB L B M ___,___ _ocate _ackwards in _ixed mode
LLM LML L L M ___,___ _ocate _ong to bottom of area in _ixed mode
LBLM LBML LLBM LLMB LMBL LMLB ____,____,____,____,____,____
L B L M _ocate _ackwards _ong to top of area in _ixed mode
FRESS Resource Manual Release 9.1 FRESS RSection 5.8 -- 171
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