03/12/76   edit merge, edit mer

Function:  The merge request combines two or more files according to
line number sequence.  The first file specified serves as the primary
file for merging; that is, the file into which all other specified
files will be merged.  Lines from subsequent files are inserted into
the primary file in the proper numerical sequence.  If duplicate lines
occur, the last one encountered during the merge is retained.  The
resulting file becomes the current file.


Syntax:  edit merge file1 file2{ file3 ... fileN}


where each filei specified is merged into file1.


Example:

!    new filea
     ready  1430


!    10  Primary file
!    40  to be merged
!    60  with others
!    save
     ready  1430
!    new fileb
     ready  1430


!    20  secondary file
!    30  to be merged
!    40  with filea
!    save
     ready  1431


!    edit merge filea fileb
     ready  1431


!    lisn
     10  Primary file
     20  secondary file
     30  to be merged
     40  with filea
     60  with others
     ready  1431


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Historical Background

This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated
to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. 
as a contribution to computer science knowledge.  
This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL
and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. 
Multics development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC (1963-1970),
renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership
of Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture 
for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent operating systems 
incorporated Multics principles.
Multics was distributed in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe , and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information Systems Inc., 
as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. .

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