Re: LOGO-L> MSWLogo 6.2 is available

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

Clark Family wrote:
> 
> What has been confusing to my son is the fact that there have been times when he
> has been able to work on a procedure andsave it then the next night be able to run
> it without having to load it just launch the program and start working. Thanks for
> your response. I agree Jim Muller's book is good we do have it already .
>                                                                     Thanks
>                                                                     Jim clark

I believe you are talking about a "feature" recently enabled that
UCBLogo
always had. It was not working because I changed the default the
extension to
.LGO and UCBLogo defaulted to .LG. The problem in the past was MSWLogo
was still
looking for .LG (for this "AutoLoad" feature to work).

If you save a procedure as the same as its name with a .LGO extension it
acts
very much like a library function. If you call out a function that does
not exist
it looks in the LOGOLIB for a match (no extension) AND looks in the
current directory
for a macth (with the .LGO extension). If it finds it in either place it
loads and
runs it.

TO HELLO
PRINT "HELLO
END
HELLO
<HELLO>
SAVE "HELLO.LGO
BYE

<START LOGO AGAIN>
HELLO
<HELLO>

If he Edit's HELLO before he runs it then it will create a new empty
one.
I'm glad you explained this more and understand how your son could be
confused.

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