Care should be taken when using the asterisk on initialization statements and commands. Processing times can increase. For example, the statement NODE(*) increases processing time drastically, although no additional nodes are actually created, and no changes are made to nodes outside the defined range. Likewise, the command, $T NODE(*), increases processing time.

The PRT statement, however, processes differently. The initialization statement, PRT(*), resets values on only those printers that have been previously defined by initialization statements. But the PRT(1-*) initialization statement will define 32767 printers (the maximum number).