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EXTERNAL GET THIS XGT Standard Verb External File Access Operation
Target = REFERENCE (RF), EXTERNAL ECHO (XE)

Retrieves the present record from a file.
This is particularly useful after having positioned the file pointer directly
ahead of a record with the verb EXTERNAL BEGIN THIS, enabling you to retrieve
the previous record in a file.
The reference of the record is written to the target noun REFERENCE.
The noun EXTERNAL ECHO contains the status message of the file operation.

EXTERNAL GET THIS in file FILE



FILE is the name of the file to be accessed.

SEE ALSO: EXTERNAL BEGIN THIS / EXTERNAL GET


 

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