Edit User's Guide and Reference Manual

PUT Command
EDIT Command Summary
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PUT Command You can use the PUT command for two main purposes:
Making the current file more compact.
Copying all or a portion of the current file into a new EDIT-format file
(keeping the same current file)
What to Enter The syntax of the PUT command to make the current file more compact is:
PUT !
The syntax of the PUT command for copying all or a portion of the current
file into a new EDIT-format file is:
PUT filename [!] [ line-range-list | string-range ]
[ RANGE { line-range-list | string-range } ]
filename
is the name of a fully or partially qualified file. If you are copying lines
and filename names an existing file, you must specify the ! character.
Specifying filename is required if you do not use the ! character. You
may omit filename only when you are compressing the current file;
otherwise, EDIT needs to know which filename to compress. (For
more information on file names, see “How EDIT Files Are Named” in
Section 6.)