Reversed Equate I/O Operators

The . (or .<) operator writes on the standard output the operand from the stack or variable designator as a string. This can be useful for debugging or displaying progress information.

The .> operator reads from the standard input characters up to a newline, returning the string entered (including the newline character). The maximum number of characters that can be read is STRMAX.

The .. operator will send output to the output file stream (as opposed to . which sends its output to standard output). This is useful for writing larger blocks of text generated from equates that cannot be written into the output file in the ordinary way (by returning the value on the stack).

All of these operators can take a local or system variable argument.

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