how to get arg and print on the output

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Tue Aug 15 15:42:03 UTC 2006


On 14-Aug-06, at 10:59 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
[snip]

>>> I'll eat my hat if works on Windows - a GUI program has no stdout  
>>> so that such an invokation (unless done from a special "command  
>>> line VM") simply cannot have any useful effect.
>> I don't know about VW, but it works fine on Windows with Squeak(*).
>> Standard output goes to the console, so you can open a console and
>> write to standard output. The console conveniently displays itself
>> in a separate window, and behaves more or less as you might expect.
>> The console window can be opened and closed as needed.
>
> But what would be the point of that? The main use of stdout and  
> stdin lies in the ability of doing I/O redirection. Creating new  
> consoles (which is admittedly trivial) is not helping with that.
Well since the original question is how to get printing of some sort  
to a stdout-like output I think Dave's point is probably sufficient.  
Time to get a hat shaped cake from the bakery..... pictures for proof  
please.

tim
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