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[MrHiggins]

Hi,

So going over the documentation and there is the north command which sets the direction to 270 degrees. In the manual it says

print #handle, "north"

This command sets the current direction to 270 (north). Zero degrees points to the right (east), 90 points down (south), and 180 points left (west).

it mentions other directions such as "east", "south", and "west". I have tried to use those other directions as a command such as:-

print #draw, "south"
It does not recognize the command of "south", so it seems you can only use "north" then combined with the "turn" command to set the absolute direction?
I do not seem to be able to spot a command that sets the absolute direction?

Many Thanks for the help.

[Rod]

Yep North sets an absolute direction then after that Turn is the command you want. If you lose track of where you are pointing then North Turn N regains control. It’s all inherited from logo / turtle scripting.

[MrHiggins]

Thanks Rod. It has been such a long time since I touched logo, I remember doing it in my very early school years .