Hi all,

I decided very soon after getting started in Picotron that I was going to try and use it as the primary workstation for my projects (instead of working in external editors like I did for PICO-8). I created a /projects folder and realized very quickly that if I wanted to do this, I was going to need to write some utilities to quickly "build" my projects. So I started working on a build utility in /appdata/system/util that I could call from the terminal.

Pretty quickly, however, I ran into an issue of trying to get user input from this utility. The idea was simple: if the user tries to build into /ram/cart, get confirmation from them before potentially clobbering whatever cart was currently loaded. This is pretty trivial stuff in any "real world" scripting language but every approach I tried in Picotron seemed to not work.

Basically, the "program" completes instantly instead of hanging and waiting for user input. Here's the main way I tried getting user input:

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