get values from a stack

Peter T. Evensen pevensen at siboneylg.com
Fri Jan 13 17:00:20 EST 2006


I wasn't specifying the path correctly.  I was using the stack name vs. the 
stack filename.

Accessing this does seem to load the stack in memory, though.

Thanks!

At 03:57 PM 1/13/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Peter,
>
>>I thought I remembered that one could get values from fields of a
>>stack without having to open (or go to) that stack.  Is this true?
>
>Yes.
>
>>I have a stack with data.  This stack is never displayed.  Do I
>>have to "go invisible" to the stack before I can get the value of
>>fields in that stack?
>
>No, you can query whatever you want from a stack by simply providing
>the pathname:
>
>...
>get fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "absolute/path/to/your/stack.rev"
>...
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>>Peter T. Evensen
>>http://www.PetersRoadToHealth.com
>>314-629-5248 or 888-628-4588
>
>Best
>
>Klaus Major
>klaus at major-k.de
>http://www.major-k.de
>
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