VIEW

Syntax

VIEW [#channel,] text_file or

VIEW \channel, text_file

Location

Toolkit II, THOR XVI

This command reads the contents of the given text_file line by line and prints it to the given channel (default #1). If a line is longer than the window, it is not split and continued in the next line (as PRINT would do) but truncated. The second syntax allows you to open a temporary channel to which the output will be sent, for example you could use:

VIEW \con,text_file

or:

VIEW \ram1_test,flp1_text_file

Note that the latter is the same as:

COPY flp1_text_file TO ram1_test

Lines in a text file are separated by line feed characters <LF>, ie. CHR$(10). If output is sent to a window, then when a window page is full, VIEW generates a <CTRL><F5>, and waits for a keypress to continue VIEWing. Sub-directories and default directories are supported by this command, which will look on the default data directory for the given file if necessary (see DATAD$).

NOTE

If the final line in the file being VIEWed does not contain a line feed, it will not appear on screen.

WARNING

There is a possibility that if a file is longer than 32767 characters and does not include a newline character, the system may crash!

CROSS-REFERENCE

SPL file TO #1 copies all kinds of files to a window, for example without truncating lines.

Compare COPY and MORE.