can't import from file in OSX? (dictionary behavior)

[Michael Hasak]

>From: Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com>

>Well, "open file", "read from file" etc are documented in the Transcript
>Dictionary; and noted in the Development Guide in the same entry which
>describes use of the URL scheme.  They aren't linked from the URL entry in
>the Transcript Dictionary (though there is a 'see also' link to "file",
>which itself has 'see also' links to "open file", "read from file" etc); 
>and
>those entries themselves do each end with a tip noting the alternative of
>using the URL scheme.
>

Doesn't show up in my development guide entry for "import data from file",  
and it's not mentioned in the "file" entry of the dictionary.  I never ran 
across it in the "see also" box either, probably because of the strange 
behavior of this box.  For instance, I just followed my "file" search of the 
dictionary with an "open" search, and rather than getting an "open" entry  
it brought up the "go" entry with no see-also to anything related to this 
open-from-file syntax.  I see this wrinkle to searching the documentation 
now, thanks to your pointer.  But I had given up, and other would-be 
developers are likely to get hung up on this non-intuitive lookup behavior.

Mike

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