Re: A problem w/ blocks

Anton Ertl <anton-eMTcDWn+JWX/RkxMZTRrOJdqbFPxfnh/@public.gmane.org> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:07:01 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.forth.gforth
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:48:07AM -0600, Patrick Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I'm trying to use a block file as virtual memory and ran into a problem.
> 
> Using this code
> ===
>   \ Use (or create) a block file
>       s" mem.fb" use
...
> What am I missing?

It should be either

    s" mem.fb" open-blocks

or

    use mem.fb

The current development version of gforth is a little more
user-friendly and flags USE at the end of a line as error.

- anton