Annotation of 42BSD/usr.lib/learn/editor/L60.1a, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: #print
                      2: So far you have always dealt with one file at a time.  Suppose you
                      3: wanted to combine two files - there is nothing we have covered so far
                      4: that will do that.  But the editor does have a command 'r' (read)
                      5: 
                      6: r file
                      7: 
                      8: which reads in the contents of "file" without throwing away what
                      9: you already have.  So that you can combine the files "cat" and "dog"
                     10: (and name the result "animal") by saying
                     11: 
                     12: ex
                     13: r cat
                     14: r dog
                     15: w animal
                     16: q
                     17: 
                     18: In this directory are four files named for continents.  Combine them into
                     19: one file named "world".  (Read the files in alphabetical order,
                     20: as they are listed).  You may want to list the input files and the combined
                     21: files with "cat" to see what they look like.
                     22: When done, type "ready" as usual.
                     23: #create Ref
                     24: This is file
                     25: 'africa' and will be listed first.
                     26: ------
                     27: this file will
                     28: have to do
                     29: for both american
                     30: continents
                     31: -----
                     32:   File "asia"
                     33:   is indented
                     34:   two spaces.
                     35: Europe's file is only one line long.
                     36: #create africa
                     37: This is file
                     38: 'africa' and will be listed first.
                     39: #create america
                     40: ------
                     41: this file will
                     42: have to do
                     43: for both american
                     44: continents
                     45: -----
                     46: #create asia
                     47:   File "asia"
                     48:   is indented
                     49:   two spaces.
                     50: #create europe
                     51: Europe's file is only one line long.
                     52: #user
                     53: #cmp Ref world
                     54: #log
                     55: #next
                     56: 60.1b 10

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