-- last edited by: L. Stewart, December 12, 1983 5:21 pm
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description
Print the contents of one or more files on the standard output. fileName (in executive window).
Because standard streams are used to read from the file., Tioga formatting and comment nodes disappear.
examples
% type test.cm
-- test.cm
///Commands/echo sleeping now
///Commands/sleep 1
///Commands/echo done sleeping
% type [ivy]<Stewart>temp>bu*
--bugs.txt
DONE command files do not print their command lines
...Aborted
%
The typeout was halted by clicking STOP!
warnings
For most applications, open is probably more sensible than type.
stop/undo
Click the STOP! button.
implementation
FSFileCommandsImpl.mesa in CommandTool.df
contact
L. C. Stewart <Stewart.pa>
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