[Jprogramming] Error with select? Maybe someone can explain this to me.

[Brian Schott]

I may be way off with this, but reading at
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dx001.htm
says :

"

1!:1 y Read. y is a file name or a file number (produced by 1!:21); the
result is a string of the file contents., e.g. 1!:1 <'abc.q'. The following
values for y are also permitted:

1 read from the keyboard (does not work within a script)




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Brian Schott