Saving snapshots to files

[Robert Brenstein]

Marc,

>Moin, Wilhelm,
>
>I am trying to learn "Transcript" and I still seem to learn better 
>by looking at working code, if the documentation is as incompatible 
>to my brain as Revolution's doc is.
>
>>     put char (LastSlash + 1) to Laenge of LongDateiName into Dateiname
>>    put char 1 to (LastSlash - 1) of LongDateiName into NewDirectory
>
>This smells like "basename" and "dirname" to me. Aren't these 
>standard function available in Revolution?

Nop, no such functions. But these values are so trivial to extract 
that no special functions are needed. Instead of locating the 
LastSlash (which presumably was done walking down chars from the end 
or using offset in a loop), it is simpler to

set the itemDelimiter to slash
put last item of LongDateiName into Dateiname
put item 1 to -2 of LongDateiName into NewDirectory

and if LongDateiName is fetched using sth line

put the long name of this stack into LongDateiName

and then cleaning the it from extra word and quotes, the same can be 
done with a single line

put char 2 to -2 of (word 2 of the long name of this stack) into LongDateiName

>I would like to have a list of standard-functions listed against 
>their Revolution versions (repeating the discussion about 
>"reinventing the wheel"), perhaps this also would help those list 
>members that try to port C-code to Transcript?

You can use functionnames() to get a list of all Rev functions and 
make matching yourself :)

>Your routine to search for slashes might run into trouble if the 
>user wanted to include slashes in his filename, it would have to 
>take care of the platform (I guess) and eventually even look out for 
>quotation marks (as slashes in filenames are allowed everywhere as 
>long as they are escaped correctly).
>

It is not possible to have slashes in a filepath that is acquired 
through answer file or ask file. Slashes are always! used as 
directory delimiter. Getting slashes into names is possible but 
system-specific. On Mac, which normally uses colons for delimiting, 
the way to get slashes in names is to use colon in the file path 
within Rev.

Robert