HELP GETLINE Aaron Sloman, May 1980
getline(<item>)
This procedure takes an item as argument. It first prints out the item, and
then uses *READLINE to read in a line of text. For
2 -> n;
getline([PLEASE TYPE ^N WORDS]) -> x;
** [PLEASE TYPE 2 WORDS]
? GO NORTH
x =>
** [GO NORTH]
GETLINE can be defined as follows:
define getline(item) -> result;
item =>
readline() -> result;
enddefine;
See HELP
*READLINE - for more details of READLINE
*REQUESTLINE - for a similar procedure whose argument is used as prompt
*LISTREAD - like READLINE, but reads lists
*READTILL - reads from input stream until a specified item is readAuthor: Aaron Sloman, May 1980