Re: Back & Forth - 4tH I/O and You

On 19/05/2025 2:49 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:

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Second - I've consulted my script, and nowhere do I use the word "redirection". I *do* state, however: "That means I have to *reuse* as many tokens as possible."
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What I mean is: why should I change my source to:
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S>D <# #S ROT SIGN #> fid WRITE-FILE
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When I can continue to use a perfectly capable: .

 
In my case that would be:  (.) WRITE
 
where (.) is a kernel function and WRITE is a library function with
appropriate error handling:
 
123 (.) write  invalid handle error ... aborting
 
Using that library I could define DISK as mentioned previously and do:
 
DISK 123 . CONSOLE
 
but as any exception msg would go to the file, redirection seems more
trouble than worth.