A script is given words, and keeps them

"do build.sh cosmos.asm" looked for a file called "build.sh cosmos.asm",
because scriptOpen copied the whole rest of the line into the name. So a
script could be told nothing, and a launcher - a script whose entire job
is to hand on what it was told - could not exist.

Now the name is cut off the front and what follows is kept whole. $1 to
$9 are the words of it, walked out on demand, and $args is all of them.
Nothing is stored per parameter, so there is no limit on how many a
script may be handed and no second number to keep in step. Both ways of
starting a script pass them on: "do" and typing the name.

A word that was not given is an error that stops the script, like every
other name this shell does not know. Expanding it to nothing would let a
command run with an argument missing and then report success, which is
what stop-on-failure exists to prevent. $args is always set inside a
script, empty if it was given nothing, so "if same $args" can be asked.

---- And the count that describes the block was already wrong ----

Found while adding a field to it. The state one script keeps for another
is saved by a single copy of a fixed number of bytes, and that number was
71 against a block of 77: six bytes of line position had been added in
the middle of it years after the count was written. So the tail of every
saved script was never saved, and #quiet in a helper stayed behind in the
script that called it - the opposite of what this file's own comment
promises and the README documents.

The unsaved line position turned out not to matter, because a loop keeps
its own copy in the block record. Nothing said so. Three numbers describe
this block and all three now say so in a comment, and cosmosScriptNest
ends on a helper that goes quiet and a caller that must not stay that
way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW

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				### 1. Recorded output

				`Tests/run.sh` assembles each program named in `Tests/manifest`, runs it, and compares

				everything it printed against a file in `Tests/expected`. 213 tests, of which 151 run, 35

				everything it printed against a file in `Tests/expected`. 214 tests, of which 152 run, 35

				only assemble, 16 are expected to fail to assemble, and 11 boot from ROM with no image

				given at all.