it and explicitVar?

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 16:04:51 EST 2012


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>>  copy something of somewhere to this card
>>  set the name of it to Joe
>>
>> the IDE doesn't recognize the copy as creating it.

> You are saying that when you copy something, it contains the long name or id of the
>object? If not, then it will contain whatever was in "it" before the command.

Something like

  copy group myout from cd 1 of stack rawstuff to cd target

will copy the group.

I can then say things like,

  set the upperleft of it to 1,1

Howerver, the ide chokes on that it, which is the proper use.

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