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From: maurits@Neon.Stanford.EDU (A. Maurits van der Veen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Reading from file "at" doesn't work
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.073222.13920@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 91 07:32:22 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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I have a question for the HC2.0v2 experts out there.
I discovered the neat new possibility with the read statement
which allows you to start reading at a specified position in
a file (p.233 in the Script Language Guide).

However, when I try using this feature in my own scripts in any form,
even typing in the example given in the script language guide:

read from file "import" at 4 for 20

the interpreter comes back at me saying:

Can't understand arguments of "read".

Does anyone know what to do about this message? Am I doing something
wrong? Is the feature not yet implemented? Is there a typo in the
Script Language Guide?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Maurits van der Veen
maurits@neon.stanford.edu