FORTH & HP: where to start?

[rprosperi]

(05-28-2023 08:38 PM)floppy Wrote:  

(05-17-2023 12:40 AM)dmh Wrote:  Check out NQueens in FORTH for the 71b here.

Question: what width of the text file has to be used before a transfer with lifutils is started? 80 characters maximum? does have the blank characters an effect on the memory used later by the forth programm in the hp71B? Or one command by line in the text file must be edited later on the HP71B? (I could not find any information of editor use in the hp71B what character per line is acceptable)

Not sure I understand all the questions here, but I'll try.

Forth syntax is free you can have as many words on an input line as you like, separated be one or more spaces, or only one per line, etc.

I would not make lines longer than 96 chars as I think that's the absolute limit, but anything over 80 is annoying, even on full size screens, and more than 22 will not fit on a 71b screen, so why use longer?

I've no idea at all what line length has to do with lifutils transfers being started, so I assume this is a translation issue??