read variables from a floppy

Im looking to use a program to display something on a monitor. The trick is i would like to have it read variables from a file on the floppy so i can easly change out the display as needed.

Side = "back"
mon = peripheral.wrap(Side)
mon.clear()
mon.setTextScale(5)
mon.setCursorPos(3,1)
mon.write("Teleporter")
mon.setCursorPos(6,2)
mon.write("Hub 1")

What i would like to do is read variables from a floppy for both the msg and to position.

I'd say a good way to go about this is to have drawing operations stored on your disks, so you wouldn't be limited with just variables, and you could basically write/print/draw anything you need.

This could be the file called "data" on your disk, for example.

mon.setTextScale(5)
mon.setCursorPos(3,1)
mon.write("Teleporter")
mon.setCursorPos(6,2)
mon.write("Hub 1")

Then you could have your computer dofile() the data file.

Side = "back"
mon = peripheral.wrap(Side)
mon.clear()
dofile("disk/data")

There's probably a better way of doing this though, so someone else can step up if they please. :)/>

so

dofile("disk/data")

Will acttualy run the program on the disk inside the other program?

Thanks i think that was exactly what i was looking for ill give it a try tonight

dofile is an easy way to do it, but you can use the textutils api to serialize and then save a table to the disk, that way you could import it into just a table instead of having variables here there and everywhere :)/>