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From: qhs grant <qhsgrant@outlook.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth.mac
Subject: Re: Zillion Android users need Simplified Gforth.
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:57:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-06-24, qhs grant <qhsgrant@outlook.com> wrote:
> Sorry! This is my first use of lsrn: searching for the FEW "*ndroid"
> mentioned posts. 
> How else would an unrooted/unrootable android user hope to get some
> insight/control over his Tablet?
>
> It's a disaster not being able to copy-paste, so I must <guess>.
> But: -/home/.gforth-history helps, potentially.  Some tests show:-
>  sh pwd == /storage/emulated/legacy/gforth/home
>  sh ls -al == ...
> drwxrwx ....  .gforth
> ...
>  sh cd ../ <- answers ok, but then
>  sh pwd <- does NOT confirm
>
> Now for the disaster.
>  sh echo "+++++++" > ./.gforth-history
>  sh cat ./.gforth-history <- MESSED !!
>
> But
> GC shows .gforth-history having only the expected 2 lines:
>  +++++++
>  cat ./.gforth-history
> BUT size=5.6K ??!!
>
> The <android ? java ? gforth> file system is NOT normal.
>
> I used the standardSD from Win8.1, which would be a FAT32 - I guess.
> Under android:gforth it showed the original fileTree as above, using
>   su du ../
>
> But under linux, this SDcard showed additionally a dirTree
><FAILEDsomething>, with 4 big files, which <grep gforth> showed
> contained the files, which are shown under android:gforth.
>
> So the SDcard takes an extra dir, which is only accessable by
> android.
>
> So gforth will NOT allow me to examine & control this Tablet
>  as if it was linux:GNU. It's a mess!!
>
> Let's see if this posts now ?
>
WOW ?! slrn's keybrding is VERY unintuitive ?!
  f    Post a followup to the current article.
=> it seems to have entered mc:edit ? Too klevaIMO.