I saved my text noun 'all' to my hard drive using:

(5!:5 <'all') 1!:2 <'c:\test1\all1.txt'

This worked fine. What would the equivalent expression be using 3!:1 and
3!:2 ?

Skip

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Marshall Lochbaum <[email protected]>wrote:

> Oh! I somehow thought that they only worked for numbers. I will be using
> these from now on, then.
>
> Marshall
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Please give a few examples of general arguments for which 3!:1 and
> > 3!:2 do not work.  I believe in this thread we are talking about
> > nouns, so that would be a few examples of general noun arguments.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Marshall Lochbaum <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > That's what 1!:1 and 1!:2 are for. You should learn the first few of
> J's
> > > file foreigns; they are listed here:
> > > http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/dx001.htm
> > >
> > > Roger: yes, the conversions functions are somewhat nicer, but they
> don't
> > > work for general arguments. Until I feel like writing a serialization
> > > function that uses these and is general (or someone else gives me
> > one--that
> > > would be awesome), I'll keep using 5!:5 for serialization of small
> > values.
> > >
> > > Marshall
> > >
>
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