Re: [q-lang-users] Just starting with Q

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Burton Samograd wrote:
> public cat F;
> 
> cat F = () if feof F;
>       = writes (freads F) || cat F otherwise;

That script works fine over here. I'd suggest replacing freads with 
fgets from clib, though, because freads chops off the newline at the end 
of a line, whereas fgets keeps it.

> [.q/cat] def F = fopen "cat" "r"
> [.q/cat] cat F
> cat <<File>>

There's definitely something strange going on there. Are you running Q 
7.2? Unfortunately, there's a bug in that version which might cause the 
behaviour that you see. Could you please try your example with Q 7.1? Or 
with the latest release candidate, Q 7.3 RC1, which is available here:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/q-lang/q-7.3rc1.tar.gz?download

HTH,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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