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SET   [?]
SET

If you enter SET without parameter, the number of the record in the current line is internally stored.

With the command RETURN you can go back to the record stored.

The specification of the parameter `?' effects that the record stored before is displayed in the dialogue zone. A leap to the record does not happen, then. You may use this parameter to find out where a RETURN command would lead to.

If the marked record does not exist any more, you receive the message:

and the record previous to the one in the SET storage of the current workfile is displayed.

After having marked a record with the SET command, you can refer to that record using the symbolic line number

This works with all commands that use symbolic line numbers, e.g. COPY, COUNT, DL, MOVE, POINT, SORT, etc.
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