Output

Format: O[utput] [filename or close]

The OUTPUT command copies all of the output from EASISTAT to a file. This allows you to save your results and study them later, and means you can use a word processor to incorporate them into a document without having to type them all in again. When you no longer wish to send output to the file the OUTPUT CLOSE command closes the file and no further output is copied. OUTPUT writes on to the end of a file, so if you choose to write to a file which already exists whatever was previously in that file will be left as it is and the new results will be tagged on at the end.

Examples:

Enter command -  OUTPUT anov0924.out

This command copies output into the file anov0924.out. If the file does not exist then it will be created. If it already exists then the new output will be appended to the old file.

Enter command -  OUTPUT 
Enter name of file to write output to: anov0924.out

If you do not initially supply a filename, you will be prompted for one.

Enter command -  OUTPUT CLOSE

Output will no longer be copied to the file or printer until another OUTPUT command is given.

Example output:

          *************************************
          *                                   *
          *       Output from EASISTAT        *
          *                                   *
          *  Copyright Dave Curtis 1989-2003  *
          *                                   *
          *************************************

This is the first thing OUTPUT will send to the results file if it is a new file. If the file already exists only new results will be copied onto the end of it.

Comments

If you use the OUTPUT command to write to a second file when another one is already being written to then the first file will be closed and the second file used instead. You cannot write to two files at once.

I recommend that you make extensive use of the ECHO command to provide titles and comments in your output file so that when you refer to it later you will be able to remember what each test was supposed to do. See the section on the ECHO command.