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ms-dos Editing and Function Keys 121
To insert a space between the word type and the filename
investrpt, you pressed ins and then the spacebar. Finally, to copy
>-^v the rest of the template to the command line, you pressed F3 and
' ' then the return key.
The command line type investrpt has been processed by ms-dos,
/—v and the template now looks like this:
type invest.rpt.
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<» If you had misspelled type as pyte, for example, a command error Correcting errors in
would have occurred. Still, instead of throwing away the whole the template
command, you could save the misspelled line before pressing the
(***) return key. You can do this by pressing the F5 key before the
return key, creating a new template:
/^—v pyte invest.rpt
You can then edit this error by pressing the following two keys: Fi
>—^ and F3. The fi key copies a single character from the template to
' ' the command line, resulting in the command that you want:
type invest.rpt
As an alternative, you can use the template that contains:
/•"N pyte invest.rpt
Then you can use the del and ins keys to get the same result,
/—n as follows:
DEL DEL FI INS yp F3