luscher@nicmad.UUCP (12/02/85)
Keywords:LOGO ref: ST LOGO question The manual "A Sourcebook for ATARI Logo" that comes with the ST is rather sad. I have been teaching myself Logo, an enjoyable language very reminiscent of LISP, from this manual and LOTS of trial and error. The manual has a number of typos which make the task of figuring out a new (to me) language doubly difficult. I have reached a total block however with a command called "READLIST (RL)" which is documented on page 45 as: Outputs a list that contains a line typed at the keyboard (input must be followed by a carriage return) or read from a data file. There are also two other commands which can alternatly access a data file (READCHAR & READQUOTE) and one of then (READCHAR) is said to be able to also access "a device"! The problem?? There is no indication on how to get the input from a data file!! As far as I can tell it always comes from the terminal. I havn't been able to find any other commands which access the disk as a file, except for the LOAD command which causes the named file of procedures to be loaded and defined. The ability to read (and store!) data would make Logo a useful language for doing some graphing I am interested in. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. -- Jim Luscher / Nicolet Instruments / Oscilloscope Div. 5225 Verona Rd Bldg-2 / Madison Wi 53711 USA / 608/271-3333x2274