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                      3: from                         Command                         from
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                      8: Generate list of numbers
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                     10: ffrroomm _s_t_a_r_t ttoo _s_t_o_p [ bbyy _i_n_c_r ]
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                     12: from prints  a list of  integers on the standard  output, one per
                     13: line.  It prints beginning with start, and then prints successive
                     14: numbers incrementing by  incr (default, one) the previous number.
                     15: It continues  until the generated value  matches or exceeds stop.
                     16: Each of start, stop, and  optional incr is a decimal integer with
                     17: an optional leading `-' sign.
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                     19: Typical uses  of from  include generating  a file of  numbers and
                     20: generating a loop index  for the shell sh.  The following example
                     21: creates special files for eight terminal ports:
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                     24: for i in `from 0 to 7`
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                     26:         /etc/mknod /dev/tty3$i c 3 $i
                     27: done
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                     30: ***** See Also *****
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                     32: commands, sh
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                     34: ***** Diagnostics *****
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                     36: from prints an error message if the generated list is empty.
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                     64: COHERENT Lexicon                                           Page 1
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