Save Stack Locally

[Jim Ault]

On 12/9/06 7:58 AM, "Mark Smith" <mark at maseurope.net> wrote:
> Er, from the dictionary:
> Syntax: save stack [as filePath]
> Examples:
> save stack "Targets"
> save this stack as "Backup"
> save stack "Treats" as "/Disk/Folder/File
> 
> This works on my system:  Rev 2.7.4, Mac OS 10.4.7

> On 8 Dec 2006, at 22:32, Ken Ray wrote:
> 
>> On 12/8/06 1:17 PM, "jhonken" <jhonken at webdsp.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> --> Saves Stack
>>> save stack URL "http://www.x12.com/x12provider.rev" as
>>> x12provider.rev
>> 
>> Although this would be a nice syntax addition to the language:
>> 
>>   save <stackDescriptor> [{as|to} <filePath>]

I think the disconnect here, is in trying the useage of

save stack URL "http://www.x12.com/x12provider.rev" as   " x12provider.rev"

to Rev
put URL ("http://www.x12.com/x12provider.rev") into tempVar
means put the 20K of characters downloaded, which is the stack file content.

whereas form
> save stack "Treats" as "/Disk/Folder/File"
translates to
save stack (URL "http://www.x12.com/x12provider.rev") as  "x12provider.rev"
which becomes 
save stack ("20K string that *is* the stack...") as  "x12provider.rev"
    which is not a valid stack name, instead of
save stack ("stackname") as  "x12provider.rev"

So to work with it as a stack:
go stack URL "http://www.x12.com/x12provider.rev" --opens the stack
put the short name of this stack into tName
save stack tName as "x12provider.rev"
--which will be located in the defaultFolder

Or to work with it as a file:
put URL ("http://www.x12.com/x12provider.rev") into tempVar
put tempVar into URL "binfile:x12provider.rev"
Or a one-liner
put URL ("http://www.x12.com/x12provider.rev") into URL
"binfile:x12provider.rev"

Jim Ault
Las Vegas