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MERGE
Chapter —Program Instructions
Purpose Statement for merging a program in the printer’s current directory, or
optionally in another specified directory, with the program currently residing
in the printer’s working memory.
Syntax MERGE
is the name (optionally including a reference to another directory
than the current one) of the program, which is to be merged with
the program currently residing in the printer’s working memory.
Remarks MERGE creates a copy of a program stored in the current directory (see
CHDIR statement), or optionally in a specified other directory, and
blends its lines into the program currently residing in the printer’s working
memory.
If there are lines with the same numbers in both programs, the lines in
the program currently residing in the working memory will be replaced
by the corresponding lines in the MERGEd program. This also applies
to programs written without line numbers, since they will automatically
be assigned hidden line numbers (10-20-30... etc.) at the execution
of the IMMEDIATE ON statement. In order to avoid overwriting
any lines, you may SAVE a program without line numbers using a
SAVE , L statement. When MERGEd, it will be appended to the
current program and assigned line numbers that start with the number
of the last line of the current program plus 10. For safety reasons, a
backup copy of the current program is recommended before issuing a
MERGE statement.
MERGE makes it possible to store blocks of program instructions, which
are frequently used, and include them into new programs. The printer’s
ROM memory contains a number of useful programs, which also can be
MERGEd into programs of your own creation.
Be careful not to include any MERGE statement as a part of a program,
or else the execution will stop after the MERGE statement has
been executed.
The EXECUTE statement offers an alternative method for combining
Fingerprint programs.
Examples The program “XYZ.PRG" will be merged with the current program. If
there are identical line numbers in both programs, the lines from “XYZ.
PRG"will replace those in the current program.
MERGE "XYZ.PRG" (from current directory)
MERGE "/c/XYZ.PRG" (from permanent memory)
MERGE "tmp:XYZ.PRG" (from temporary memory)
MERGE "card1:XYZ.PRG" (from memory card)
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