On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:53:44AM -0700, Patrick Collison wrote: > Hi, > > Using latest SVN Squeak, I'm having trouble passing arguments to an image. > > As far as I can see from the usage, it looks like "squeak foo.image > bar" should pass bar as an argument to the image. Instead, though, I > get a load error (the problem seems to be that Squeak is trying to > load the url "file:bar" using the CodeLoader). > > Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
Patrick, By convention, the first argument after the image name and any VM arguments is used to name a script file that is evaluated when the image starts. For most Squeak images, you give the name of the script file in the form of a fully qualified url such as 'file:///home/myaccount/mysqueakdir/myscript.st'. The script file can contain Smalltalk expressions in "bang format", the same format used for file-in and file-out. Thus you could have a script file called "myscript.st" containing a Smalltalk expression like this: "Smalltalk inspect ! " There is a preference setting that you can use to control this: help... -> preferences... -> general -> readDocumentAtStartup I am guessing that you are using a Unix VM; if so, there is a man page ("man squeak") that gives some explanation. Also, "squeak -h" will give some help, and there is a note at the bottom of the help output that says "The first <argument> normally names a Squeak `script' to execute." Dave _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners