FORTH for the SHARP PC-E500 (S)

[robve]

(04-03-2022 11:06 PM)Helix Wrote:  I've just spent an hour trying the INCLUDE command, that I have never used so far, but for some reason it didn't work. Maybe I'm messing something in the file format, or I've forgotten one important detail, but I give up.

Have you tried this? To load from COM:, make sure to set the serial parameters first on the E500 to correspond to the settings of your sending program, which should be done once (and for all) in BASIC with OPEN "baud rate, parity, word length, stop bit, A, C, &H1A, XON" AS #1 then CLOSE #1. The file to send should have an ending &1A (ctrl-Z) end of file.

PS. I should add that commands like INCLUDE open and then close the file, even when an error occurred. However, if files or COM: cannot be opened, then try fileid CLOSE-FILE . for some fileid>0 values to close the file. This closes the file if for some reason it stayed open e.g. after a program aborted due to an error when files are open.

- Rob