Commodore PC Ms-Dos 3.2 User's Manual page 213

Edlin Commands 141
sequences. You don't really type the entire word, CONTROL;
instead, you simply press the control key followed by the
(~^ control character, z or c or v.
smonthly budgetCONTROL-Z-5 7+5L
) If edlin can find any lines that contain the words monthly
budget, then the displayed lines are the five lines before and
-*^ the five lines after the current line. Note that the current line
J } (the line with the asterisk) must be before the line or lines
that contain the search string.
^■^ ■ You can insert a control character, such as control-c, into
C > text by using the quote character, control-v, before it while
in insert mode, control-v tells ms-dos to recognize the next
capital letter typed as a control character. You can also put
(***} a control character in an S (search) or R (replace) command
by using the quote character. For example, the following
command finds the first occurrence of control-z in a file:
' ; 5 CONTROL-V Z
s—K. The next example replaces all occurrences of controlz in a
( ' file with pencil.
r control-vZcontrol-z pencil
And this next command replaces all occurrences of control-c
with pen.
5 CONTROL-VC CONTROL-Z pen
/—^ It is also possible to insert control-v into the text by typing
' / CONTROL-W.
■ The controlz character ordinarily tells edlin, "This is the end
>—v of the file." If you have controlz characters elsewhere in your
file, you must tell edlin that these other control characters
do not mean end-of-file. To tell edlin to ignore the controlz
^^ characters in the file and to show you the entire file, use the
<\ /b switch. For example, when you start edlin and want to
ignore all controlz characters in a file, you could use the
/b option with the edlin command and your filename.
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