24.5.4 Performing operations on system members

A variety of operations can be performed on any number of nodes selected in the Graph area. If no system nodes are selected, or if you are in another view, the commands are performed on the current system, whose name is printed in the System area.

The Works > Systems menu gives you access to the standard actions described in Performing operations on selected objects.

• Choose Works > Systems > Parent to browse the parent system. This takes you up one level in the hierarchy.
• Choose Works > Systems > Compile and Load , Works > Systems > Compile , or Works > Systems > Load to compile or load the selected systems.
• Choose Works > Systems > Concatenate to produce a single fasl file from a system. You will need to supply the name of the fasl file, when prompted.
• Choose Works > Systems > Search Files to search any of the selected members (and any subsystems) for a given string. The matches are displayed in the editor.
• Choose Works > Systems > Replace to search all the files in the selected members (and any subsystems) for a given string and replace it with another string. You are prompted for both strings in the echo area.

You need to save the buffers to actually save the changes on disk, this is easily done using the Editor tool - see Buffers area for details.