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PATCH DELETE — MicroVMS 4.6

Use DELETE to delete an instruction or data from one location  or
from  several  consecutive locations in terms of the current mode
settings.

When you use the  DELETE  command  to  delete  instructions,  the
instructions  are  replaced  with NOP instructions.  When you use
the DELETE command to delete ASCII and numeric data, the data  is
replaced with zeros.

Format:

     DELETE location = current-contents [,...]

     Mode Qualifiers                 Defaults
     ____ __________                 ________

     /BYTE
     /WORD                           /LONG
     /LONG

     /OCTAL
     /DECIMAL                        /HEXADECIMAL
     /HEXADECIMAL

     /[NO]ASCII                      /NOASCII
     /[NO]INSTRUCTION                /NOINSTRUCTION
     /[NO]SYMBOLS                    /SYMBOLS

     /[NO]GLOBALS                    /NOGLOBALS
     /[NO]SCOPE                      /SCOPE

Prompts:

        LOC> location
        OLD> current-contents

Additional information available:

Parameters

Parameters

location
     Specifies either (1) a single location whose contents are  to  be
     deleted  or  (2)  the starting address of a sequence of locations
     whose contents are to be deleted.

current-contents
     Specifies one or more data entries or instructions to be deleted.
     The data or instructions you specify must be the actual contents.
     Do not specify conflicting data  types  within  a  single  DELETE
     command.


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