Re: BX vs. BC

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Harry Binswanger  on Mon, 16 Feb 2004
21:29:34 -0500


> To open a file from the directory, on
> which a cursor is situated, you can use BC caXC but not BX caQ2.

Not entirely true. The way to do it is:

GT >BX ca Q2

The idea that you would be "blindly" looking at a directory display probably
struck the designer as queer. And it's true, you get programmatic information
about the dir entry via VA$DR _before_ you CAll, which makes sense (maybe,
after all, you don't want to CAll this particular item...).

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