Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Meyer Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:53:54 +0900 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <87pl29ahjx.fsf@localhost> References: <874ijp1wxb.fsf@localhost> <10vgove$1cu8p$1@dont-email.me> <10vi0vp$1o7cp$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="2751984"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+oZaZUTnaXGJ++pQEl3lY0"; posting-host="3f663f07089fdacc208fa2c27826aefb" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8GFMdUNstpyABZf0EAJkwKljTfg= sha1:HqTYTzzX5GLkgf0zUYqDRyJjanU= sha256:2BuML6RHzRqIVVJF5BvvroRrCa2DBa0CCHLHU3912JM= sha1:TRJtdBByHxT5wFnf4RoxGD2bwvA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:135123 Bernd Paysan writes: > Checking for possible workarounds: If Gforth creates the file, it can see > and read it even when the file manager edited it. So you might want to > define a "touch" command that allows you to quickly create files there, > and then overwrite/edit them with the file browser. That works, though only if you edit the file created by Gforth. Overwriting the file from another app makes it inaccessible from Gforth. At least the Gforth app is now useful, until Google decides to make further "improvements" to Android. -- David Meyer Takarazuka, Japan papa@sdf.org