Re: LOGO-L> MSWLogo 6.2 is available

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

Clark Family wrote:
> 
> George I have a question about saving procedures. Some times my son will
> finish working in MSW Logo will have saveed his procedures as he has
> finished them then the next evening he tries to use them and it says I don't
> know how to then the procedure Name. He will then try to edit them and it
> will be defined but no other entries for the procedure even though he has
> saved them the previous night. Could you describe how  and when the
> procedures should be saved? Also is there a way you can save only what you
> need of the procedure and not the whole work space?
> 
> Jim Clark
> P.S. We have been using 6.1 and I just downloaded 6.2. thanks for all your
> work!
> 

You need to LOAD the work you SAVEd to get the definitions back.
If you edit a procedure that does not exist it will create an
empty definition for you.

Also don't confuse "Do you want to SAVE your edit?" from the editor
versus "Do you want to SAVE your workspace?" from the MSWLogo.

TO HELLO
PRINT "HELLO
END
SAVE "MYWORK.LGO
BYE

LOAD "MYWORK.LGO
HELLO
<HELLO>
BYE

LOAD and SAVE can also be issued from the FILE menu.

You should check out Jim's "The Great Logo Adventure" book.
It covers From Beginner to Intermediate.

I think you'll get a lot more enjoyment out of Logo with it.

Yes you could save only specific definitions if you wanted to.
I think we need to tackle basic saving/loading first :-)

But if your curious See the Online help on the SAVE command.

This is part of the online help for SAVE

Save is equivalent to:

to save :filename
local "oldwriter
make "oldwriter writer
openwrite :filename
setwrite :filename
poall
setwrite :oldwriter
close :filename
end

You would replace the POALL with PO :MYLIST where :mylist
contains what procedures you wanted SAVE.

If you can grasp how the above procedure really works you've
begun to really understand how MSWLogo/UCBLogo works.

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George Mills
email: mills@softronix.com
http://www.softronix.com
The www page contains some very powerful educational software.
Our single most important investment is our kids.
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