Re: [scamm@tin.it: W95 alfa version]

[EMERGE_sl_users@umit.maine.edu (Jeffrey Allen)]

mres@media.mit.edu,.Internet writes:
>Hi Jeff. Can you respond to this?

(forwarded from scamm@tin.it (Silvio Cammarata) - some bits ommitted,
order altered)
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>I would very much appreciate to receive a quick reference list of
commands
>accepted by the alfa version and any suggestions on how to solve the
above
>problems. 

The documentation for the PC alpha is absent because it is essentially
the same
as the documentation for version 1.5 of MacIntosh StarLogo. I'm not
sure if MIT
still has that documentation available on line, but if you can find it,
that's what 
you should use. A couple of 1.5 commands have changed to conform with
the
way 2.0 does things. (While the commands in question escape me at the
moment, 
if a certain command doesn't work, and the 2.0 form is different from
the 1.5
version, try that.)

> I found a major problem because the system doesn't accept the
>association of a variabile (like "food") to a patch, via commands like:
>patches-have food, patches-own [food], set food 10 etc.
As far as i know, the patches-own [ variables ] command should be
working. I'm sure that it was in the earlier alphas, but who knows,
maybe i 
nudged something out of whack. I'll check on this.

>Another (minor) inconvenience is that, when a program with wrong
commands is
>saved, the message "I don't know how to do <wrong command>" is
repeatedly
>displayed even after clicking OK and it hampers the necessary
correction
>(the application must be terminated and rebooted).

I have to apologize for that. I've seen it before, but gave it low
priority. 
It's on the list for the next alpha now.

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-j.allen