PS TEXT EDIT Reference Manual

READ
TEDIT Commands
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In the “Range:” field, supply a line range. The default is ALL or F/L,
which indicates all lines from the first through the last line in the file.
The / indicates a range of lines. You can use line numbers, one of these
characters: F, L, or A, or POSITIONS in the range field. See “RANGES”
in Section 2 for a description of line ranges. Here are examples of line
ranges:
A — All lines
F/L — First line to the last line (same as A)
2/15 — Line 2 through line 15
5/L — Line five through the last line
P — A storage area that GOTOPOSITION uses to find saved
position numbers
What Happens
When you read text from a file to the scratchpad, the new text is added to
the existing text already in the scratchpad.
You enter POSITIONS to designate that you are reading values to be used
with the GOTOPOSITION command. These lines are not entered into the
scratchpad. READ, when you use it with POSITIONS, lets you use the
marked positions you saved in a file.