Re: Gforth for Android can't unpack its files or read .gforthrc

Ethan Gardener <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.gforth
Message-ID <1545917974.906699.1619175840.6F42BC3C@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018, at 12:13 PM, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2018, 13:07:10 CET schrieb Ethan Gardener:
> > Just installed Gforth on a reconditioned Moto G4 (Android 7).  On startup,
> > Gforth pops up a box, "Unpacking files" with a spinner.  In that same box,
> > it reports, "error: no space left".
> 
> Please give Gforth *access* to the SD card (check the App settings, 
> permissions). The error is indeed misleading, but that's Android.

Ah! Done.  Thank you, I'd forgotten about granting permissions that way.

Now Gforth doesn't read /sdcard/gforth/home/.gforthrc . Its file permissions are rw-rw----, comparable to gforth's own directories rwxrwx---.
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