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Blake

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Juergen Sauermann <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> due to the problems with building DLLs under Windows, I have converted the
> native function *FILE_IO *of *GNU APL* into  a new system function *⎕FIO*.
>
> *⎕FIO* is used exactly like *FILE_IO*, except that it cannot (and does
> not have to) be* ⎕SVO*'ed
> beforehand.
>
> The old *FILE_IO* native function is still present (and will be for a
> while) for backward compatibility.
> The *FILE_IO* code has been  moved to *⎕FIO *code, and *FILE_IO* is now
> merely a wrapper to the *⎕FIO* code.
> As a consequence, files opened with *⎕FIO* are visible by *FILE_IO* and
> vice versa. A subtle difference between
> *⎕FIO* and *FILE_IO* is that *)CLEAR* and friends close all files opened
> by *⎕FIO *or *FILE_IO*.
>
> The *wslib5/FILE_IO.apl *workspace has been updated to use *⎕FIO*. If you
> use to *)C**O**PY* that  workspace
> instead of using *FILE_IO* directly, then everything remains as is.
>
> /// Jürgen
>

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