I may be way off with this, but reading at http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dx001.htm says :
" 1!:1 y Read. y is a file name or a file number (produced by 1!:21); the result is a string of the file contents., e.g. 1!:1 <'abc.q'. The following values for y are also permitted: 1 read from the keyboard (does not work within a script) -- (B=) <-----my sig Brian Schott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
