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Re: GForth in Docker.

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Hi,
No Debian package... recursive dependency, cute.
Installed package from Sid, plus dependencies,

then compiled from source with many, many dependencies,
purged Sid packages, installed, that was painful.

Hoping the Sid package makes it to stable on the next release.

Colin

On 5/8/26 18:19, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
> In article <114tl3v$2fsah$1@dont-email.me>, Nick P  <nick.268@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, Im new here.
>>
>> Having checked out the GForth.org webpage I have gone with the "use
>> docker" option (on Ubuntu 22.04). As a result I'm having difficulty
>> getting .fs files I have on one of my hard drives to run in it.
>>
>> I can get the docker image running, and use the command line without a
>> problem, what I cant do is run a file that is in some arbitary directory
>> on a disk.
>>
>> I strongly suspect its a docker issue rather than a Gforth issue as the
>> Gforth site and documentation does not cover this so far as I can tell.
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion of a source of information, jargon lite
>> hopefully, that will get me started using source files with GForth in a
>> docker container?
> 
> To me it merely proves that docker is creating problems, not solving them.
> The first thing I want to know if I run a compiler where the working
> directory is so that I can access files without a graphics interface.
> 
> So preferred:
> unzip a forth archive
> cd working
> try it
> cd ..
> delete working recursively
> 
> If you like it, you can install the program.
> If the forth is any good, you will want it all
> over the place.
> 
> Groetjes Albert

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GForth in Docker. Nick P <nick.268@gmail.com> - 2026-08-04 22:21 +0100
  Re: GForth in Docker. jkn <jkn+nin@nicorp.co.uk> - 2026-08-04 22:50 +0100
    Re: GForth in Docker. Nick P <nick.268@gmail.com> - 2026-08-04 23:20 +0100
      Re: GForth in Docker. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-05 06:35 +0000
        Re: GForth in Docker. Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-02 14:26 -0300
  Re: GForth in Docker. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-05 10:19 +0200
    Re: GForth in Docker. Colin Tree <treecolin@gmail.com> - 2026-08-06 08:47 +1000
      Re: GForth in Docker. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 05:08 +0000
        Re: GForth in Docker. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 16:01 +0200

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