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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Back & Forth - 4tH I/O and You
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 13:21:03 +1000
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On 19/05/2025 2:49 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:
> ...
> 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."
> 
> What I mean is: why should I change my source to:
> 
> S>D <# #S ROT SIGN #> fid WRITE-FILE
> 
> 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.