I didn't realize the standard streams, stderr, stdin, and stdout were available in Smalltalk as objects. I can take it from here. Thank you for enlightening me Felipe! Gary
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 12:13 AM Felipe Bañados Schwerter < fbana...@hushmail.com> wrote: > You want to look into the methods in the accessing-reading protocol of > the Stream class. > Link to the manual: > https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/gst-base.html#Stream_002daccessing_002dreading > > e.g. to read a line from stdin, you can do > > stdin nextLine. > > > On Jan 13, 2021, at 7:58 PM, Gary Highberger <gary.highber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm sure it's possible but I sure can't figure out how. I consulted very > well written papers by Valencia Consulting and the Bluebook and still > haven't a clue how to read the keyboard from a running Smalltalk program > (in C getchar() , scanf(), etc. are used). > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Gary Highberger > > >