About loader(8) forth

[Oliver Fromme]

Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > Matteo Riondato wrote:
 > > Just to have a try, I replaced /boot/beastie.4th with file a
 > > containing only: 
 > > 
 > > ." Welcome to FreeSBIE"
 > > exit
 > > 
 > > then I deleted the line mentioning beastie-start from /boot/loader.rc
 > > and rebooted my machine.
 > [...]
 > I think putting "exit" directly into beastie.4th (which is
 > included by loader.rc) is not a good idea.  You should use
 > "exit" only within a function that you define in beastie.4th
 > and then call that function from loader.rc, just like the
 > standard files do.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the word `` ." '' cannot be
used in interpret mode, but only in interpret mode (i.e.
when defining a function).  You should either put it inside
a function, as suggested above, or use `` .( '' instead
which works in interpret mode, like this:

.( Welcome to FreeSBIE)

If you have further questions, feel free to ask.

Best regards
   Oliver

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