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Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 15:13:52 EDT 2011


Ah k, ty for the explanation of why.

I like merge so I did the line that way.

*   put merge("stack [[quote]]_[[pCalSize]]Calendar[[quote]] of stack
[[quote]][[the short name of me]][[quote]]") into tCalStack*


On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Jun 5, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
>  I think its asking what folder you want it to put the library in, then it
>> creates it on its own, and will supply the correct "start using.. "
>> command.
>> Or add it to the stack for you.
>>
>> I did notice a typo in 1 line of the library script
>>
>> *  put ("stack" && q("_" & pCalSize & "Calendar")) && "of stack" && q(the
>> short name of me) into tCalStack*
>>
>> Causes an error, remove the 2 extraneous q's and it works great.
>>
>> My fresh copy of the calendar (as of 12:30 (gmt -7)) has the typo.
>>
>
>
>
> The 'q' is a function that does quoting of the string.
>
> Evidently the script container that has
>   function q incomingString
>   end q
> is not available
>
> The time is may be necessary is when pCalSize or the short name of the
> stack contain spaces.
>
> My technique for this is to do
>
> put quote into q
>
>  put ("stack" && q& "_" & pCalSize & "Calendar" &q) && "of stack" && q& the
> short name of me &q into tCalStack*
> -- where I don't need the function and uses the same number of chars
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
>
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