Re: stdin and (key)

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Enrique, now one can make a pager like the unix 'more' utility in Picolisp. Reading the text from stdin and reading the keyboard to move around the text. Yes, but still only in a limited way. Utilities like 'more' or 'less' keep the standard input stream open while at the same time reading

Re: database setup in language learning

2014-07-22 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Steven, Hello marmorine, Ummm... Steven. ;) Oops! Sorry :) Tried all sorts of size combinations, found one that is more compact, to use (0 +Wrds) instead of the block size 1 for it. But then I guess you should take a look with size to make sure you are not cutting things to close?

Re: database setup in language learning

2014-07-22 Thread steven
Hi Alex, I have decided that man's best friend is 1) a dog, 2) hexdump. ;) What I did was try out the various prefix classes you mentioned with the +List, +Ref, +String etc. in different combinations, and just went and looked at them. More on that below. Exactly. But this may not be a good