Hello Fons, .n, .z and .< commands have nothing to do with the readline library. It is my original implementation in Cint. Thank you Masaharu Goto >Date: 22 Feb 2002 10:21:55 +0100 >From: Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch> >To: Valentin Kostov <valio@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> >Cc: Masaharu Goto <MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp>, roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch >Subject: Re: [CINT] [ROOT] CINT scripts (fwd) > >Hi Valentin, > > the .n and .z are not available yet via ROOT since we don't use the >readline library. We'll investigate how to fix this. > >Cheers, Fons. > > > >On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 00:05, Valentin Kostov wrote: >> Thank you for your suggestions! >> >> I tried the commands you suggested at the ROOT prompt. >> Here is what I got: >> >> root [0] . >> root [1] .n comdump >> Create new readline dumpfile comdump and start dump >> root [2] .L topElectron.C >> root [3] .L topHeader.C >> root [4] .L topJet.C >> root [5] .L topMet.C >> root [6] .L topHepg.C >> root [7] .L topOfflTrack.C >> root [8] .L topPrimaryVertex.C >> root [9] .L bbana.cc >> root [10] .trace bbana >> trace bbana object on >> root [11] .z >> Stop readline dump. >> All readline dumpfiles have been closed. >> root [12] .q >> >> >> Indeed, a file called "comdump" was created in the current directory >> but it was empty (checked with cat). I tried to execute it anyway in >> another root session and the result was: >> >> root [0] .< comdump >> Execute readline dumpfile comdump >> root [1] >> >> Obviously the file was empty, otherwise there would have been a message >> "trace bbana object on". >> >> It's interesting that the description of the ".n"and ".z" commands >> can't be found typing .help in my root. Also they print messages as if >> they worked but the result was nothing. >> >> Is it possible that my root is not correctly installed which prevents >> these commands from proper execution? >> >> >> Greetings, >> Valio >> >> >> >> >-- >Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. >Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland >E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 >WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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