/sys$common/syshlp/PATCHHELP.HLB  —  DELETE
 Use DELETE to delete data from one location  or from  several
 consecutive locations in terms of the current mode settings.
 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

 Prompts:

 	LOC> location
 	OLD> current-contents
Additional Information: explode extract
Parameters
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