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Chapter 10 / EDLIN Command Reference
Append Lines (A)
[number]A
Adds the specified number of lines from disk to the file being
edited in memory. The lines are added at the end of the file.
This command is meaningful only if the file being edited is too
large to fit into memory. Before using this command, you must
write the portion of the file that was loaded into memory (and
which has been edited) to disk. Refer to the Write Lines
command.
When the Append command reads the last line of the file into
memory, EDLIN displays the message:
End of input file
If you omit the number of lines, EDLIN appends lines until
available memory is 75% full. However, if memory is already
75% full, EDLIN does nothing.
Example:
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appends 100 lines from the disk to the file in memory.
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