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1152 MS-DOS User's Reference
(E)nd
Ending your editing
session
End
Purpose:
Ends the editing session.
Syntax:
e
Comments:
The E (end) command saves the edited file on your disk, renames
the original input file filename. bak, and then exits edlin. If you
created the file during the current editing session, edlin does not
create a backup (.bak) file.
The E command takes no options. This means that you must
select the drive that you want to save the file on when you start
edlin; if you don't, edlin saves the file on the disk in the default
drive. However, you can still
copy the file to a different drive by
using
the MS· DOS copy command.
Before using
the E command to save your file, make sure that the
disk contains enough free space for the entire file. If it doesn't,
edlin may not be able to write the entire file to the disk. The
edited file will be lost, even though edlin may have saved part
of it on the disk.
Example:
To end your editing session, type E and then press RETURN. After
edlin processes the E command, the screen displays the MS·DOS
prompt (for example, A> ).
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