Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-17 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 17.08.2009, at 05:34, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: On Monday 17 Aug 2009 7:50:35 am Randal L. Schwartz wrote: K On Monday 17 Aug 2009 12:17:25 am Randal L. Schwartz wrote: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2007-May/116683.html That explanation is about .sources and

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread Overcomer Man
Randal Does that help? Yes it does clarify where to more properly access fileIn, from a file list instead of the class definition middle button more... menu. Thanks. I'm still stuck on making my file look enough like a Squeak fileOut to pass. So I'll just do it by hand. Some code will have

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Sunday 16 Aug 2009 12:09:27 pm Overcomer Man wrote: Yes it does clarify where to more properly access fileIn, from a file list instead of the class definition middle button more... menu. Thanks. I find drag-n-drop from the native file manager to be easier than going through Squeak FileList.

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
K == K K Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com writes: K Squeak fileOuts are binary files, not text; though they contain lot of K ASCII characters. Really? When did they change? In classic Squeak, fileouts were basically the classic ST80 format, which is clearly human-readable text. -- Randal L.

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread Overcomer Man
subbukk What exactly are you trying to do? I'm trying to get object database functions to provide for my robot and an English dictionary. I have some old code in a Dolphin package file I'm copying in but it seems unnecessarily complex. I now think a database might be available as part of

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Sunday 16 Aug 2009 10:28:23 pm Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Really? When did they change? In classic Squeak, fileouts were basically the classic ST80 format, which is clearly human-readable text. But not native text files (they are not opened in ascii mode). Code fileOuts are a database of

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Sunday 16 Aug 2009 11:00:51 pm Overcomer Man wrote: subbukk What exactly are you trying to do? I'm trying to get object database functions to provide for my robot and an English dictionary. I have some old code in a Dolphin package file I'm copying in but it seems unnecessarily complex.

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
K == K K Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com writes: K But not native text files (they are not opened in ascii mode). Code fileOuts are K a database of data chunks. See Bert's explanation at: K http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2007-May/116683.html That explanation is about

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 17 Aug 2009 12:17:25 am Randal L. Schwartz wrote: That explanation is about .sources and .changes, not fileOuts. The class fileout (from browser into *.st files) uses the same format (sequence of data chunks) as *.sources and *.changes files. Did you have some other fileOuts in mind?

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
K == K K Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com writes: K On Monday 17 Aug 2009 12:17:25 am Randal L. Schwartz wrote: That explanation is about .sources and .changes, not fileOuts. K The class fileout (from browser into *.st files) uses the same format K (sequence of data chunks) as *.sources and

[Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-15 Thread Overcomer Man
Somehow the design of Squeak omits fileIn from the same menu as fileOut so it's hard to know what works on fileOut is going to work on fileIn. I'm trying to convert software written in another Smalltalk and it would help to file it in. At least adopting each class to Squeak's fileIn format

Re: [Newbies] Help me FileIn

2009-08-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Overcomer == Overcomer Man overcomer@gmail.com writes: Overcomer Somehow the design of Squeak omits fileIn from the same menu as Overcomer fileOut so it's hard to know what works on fileOut is going to Overcomer work on fileIn. I'm trying to convert software written in another Overcomer