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HELP GETLINE                                        Aaron Sloman, May 1980

    getline(<item>)

This procedure takes an item as argument. It first prints out the item, and
then uses *READLINE to read in a line of text. For

    2 -> n;
    getline([PLEASE TYPE ^N WORDS]) -> x;
    ** [PLEASE TYPE 2 WORDS]
    ? GO NORTH

    x =>
    ** [GO NORTH]

GETLINE can be defined as follows:

    define getline(item) -> result;
        item =>
        readline() -> result;
    enddefine;

See HELP
    *READLINE    - for more details of READLINE
    *REQUESTLINE - for a similar procedure whose argument is used as prompt
    *LISTREAD    - like READLINE, but reads lists
    *READTILL    - reads from input stream until a specified item is read