no go?

[J. Landman Gay]

DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
> Colin.
> 
> If you try to navigate to a stack not explicitly listed in the "Search 
> Paths" cards of the home stack (pertains to files as well) you get a dialog 
> asking where it is. This is what I would have expected. But no such feedback, 
> except for the result being set.

As mentioned, the stackfiles is a sort of substitute for what HC had. 
Rev will only recognize stacks by their short name if they are already 
in RAM. It does, however, allow you to refer to stacks by their 
filename, and if you do that they will open as you expect. I.e.:

   go stack "folder/folder/stackname.rev"

If you don't know the file path and are trying to open a stack that 
isn't already listed in the stackfiles, then what you experienced is 
just how it is. HC had a built-in fallback option which is trivial to 
implement yourself in Rev:

go stack "notInRAM"
if the result is not empty then
   answer file "Where is notInRAM?"
   if it is not empty then
    go stack it
   end if
end if

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