New Mac user; can't read files

[Darrah Chavey]

Trying to use SWI-Prolog on a Mac. I installed the program, run it, and try to load the file "friends.pl" using the syntax from http://www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/LoadProgram.html. I get the following:

1 ?- [friends].

ERROR: source_sink `friends' does not exist

2 ?- 

I placed a copy of "friends.pl" into every directory associated with the application, my User root directory, and my User desktop directory. Same result. The book "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" says to put the filename in single quotes, ['friends'], so I do that; it fails. If I go to the Unix Terminal interface, I can manage to load the file by executing ./swipl -s friends.pl, but it seems like I should be able to do this via the Mac interface. Any suggestions?

[Eyal Dechter]

What directory are you in? Is the file in that directory? Open up swipl and type: 

?- pwd. 

and 

?- ls.

What does it say?  

Eyal

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[Darrah Chavey]

That did it. It defaulted to the root directory, i.e. the directory above Applications and Users. Placing my input file there allowed it to be read. That’s not a good location for input files. How do I change the expected input directory? [/Users/chavey/friends]. fails.

On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 3:42:19 PM UTC-5, Eyal Dechter wrote:

What directory are you in? Is the file in that directory? Open up swipl and type: 

?- pwd. 

and 

?- ls.

What does it say?  

Eyal

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Darrah Chavey <cha...@beloit.edu> wrote:

Trying to use SWI-Prolog on a Mac. I installed the program, run it, and try to load the file "friends.pl" using the syntax from http://www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/LoadProgram.html. I get the following:

1 ?- [friends].

ERROR: source_sink `friends' does not exist

2 ?- 

I placed a copy of "friends.pl" into every directory associated with the application, my User root directory, and my User desktop directory. Same result. The book "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" says to put the filename in single quotes, ['friends'], so I do that; it fails. If I go to the Unix Terminal interface, I can manage to load the file by executing ./swipl -s friends.pl, but it seems like I should be able to do this via the Mac interface. Any suggestions?

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[Torbjörn Lager]

If all you need is a taste of Prolog (i.e. no serious project development), you may want to check out SWISH. See

  http://swish.swi-prolog.org/

Chances are that you'll be able to avoid installing anything at all, and do everything in "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" using SWISH.

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[Eyal Dechter]

When loading a file you need to put single quotes around the path if it contains spaces, backslashes, or it starts with an uppercase letter (among other things; this will make sense when you learn about prolog syntax). You can change directories using predicate cd/1.

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