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Enter-name Locate

Note: This topic applies to UNIX environments (remote development) only.

Displays a menu where you can type in the name of the item to be located in the source code. Once you have entered the name of a data-item, the cursor is moved to one of the following locations:

The line in which the data item is declared
The first occurrence of the filename in your program
The paragraph or section-name at the head of a procedure

depending upon what you enter at the prompt. If you are working with nested programs, you must be positioned in the program in which that data item is defined for this function to work successfully.