Gforth Android file access trouble

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Subject	Gforth Android file access trouble
Date	Sat, 30 May 2026 10:57:36 +0900
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I'm running the Gforth 0.7.9_20251001 app on Android 16 smartphone.

A few months ago, Bernd helped me here to get around Android's golden
caging by creating a directory under /storage/emulated/0/Download for
copying files in and out of the Gforth app, and adding that directory to
fpath.

That worked well at that time, but yesterday I copied a new file into
that shared directory (/storage/emulated/0/Download/gforth on my phone)
and Gforth cannot find the file with either include or 'sh ls', even
though files I copied into the directory months ago still show up as
expected.

Permissions on all the files in the directory, old and new, is 660
(read+wrote for owner and group). I tried changing perms to 666 (add
world read+write), but it had no effect, and permissions were reset to
660 after I restarted the phone.

Any idea what's going on with the new file?

-- 
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
papa@sdf.org

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Gforth Android file access trouble David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> - 2026-05-30 10:57 +0900
  Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Martin Nicholas <reply-2026@mgn.org.uk> - 2026-05-30 09:00 +0100
    Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-05-30 13:51 +0100
  Re: Gforth Android file access trouble David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> - 2026-05-31 08:52 +0900
  Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2026-05-31 07:45 +0000
    Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2026-05-31 19:08 +0000

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