Simple questions (hopefully)

[lonnietc]

Hello,

I have read over the core documentation and may have missed this somewhere, but if I am running Steel standalone on Windows, for example, then how to simply load a file from within the REPL environment?

On that note, is there a way to get a list of environmental commands like this from while it is running in maybe some internal help system?

From the command line I tried to run a file that was located just in the cogs directory relative to the steel binary without installing in user space but got errors:

>steel cogs\test-runner.scm
error[E08]: Io
  ┌─ :1:2
  │
1 │ (require "cogs\test-runner.scm")
  │  ^^^^^^^ Attempting to load module from: "C:\\Users\\User\\.steel\\cogs\\cogs\test-runner.scm" The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)

Thanks and have a great day

[mattwparas]

I think this is just a bug, this should work but I don't test on windows regularly. I do my best to maintain compatibility in general, should be a quick fix.

When you say "environmental commands" could you elaborate?

[lonnietc]

Hi my friend and thanks for the quick reply.

Sorry for the incorrect verbage here as when I mentioned "environmental commands" I was thinking about starting up Steel with no scripts running and then loading a script, and then it occurred to me that maybe there are other things that might be needed like getting a directory list or changing a current working directory do that running scripts would be relative to that path location. For example, I make a directory and put in steel.exe along with the examples and cog directories. Then I was thinking to have a way to change the directory to "cogs" and then load and run the "test-runner.scm" or get a directory list of the current directoy.

Basically things like that without having to exit Steel.

Thanks agian

[IllustratedMan-code]

@lonnietc If you check the book, there is a Change current directory function. If you look around in the book, you can probably find what you need.