• Zillion Android users need Simplified Gforth.

    From qhs grant@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 24 09:30:54 2018
    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 ?

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  • From qhs grant@21:1/5 to qhs grant on Wed Jun 27 20:57:07 2018
    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.

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