"save as" of stack file from a script

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Fri Jul 3 21:13:53 EDT 2015


What Richard said, except sounds like you know the filepath so just set the
filename to it.  Also be aware that when you "save as" the saved as version
of the file becomes the one you are working on not the version that was in
memory.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:56 PM Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
>  > Anyway, if anyone knows where "save as" goes so that I can set its
>  > options and call it, it would be a great help.
>
> A mainstack has a filename property, which can be set from the value
> returned from "ask file".  Follow that with a save command and you're done.
>
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