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wejgaard / TclForth

Multi-platform desktop Forth based on Tcl/Tk
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Lost in Linux #5

Closed keithterrill closed 4 years ago

keithterrill commented 5 years ago

I am totally lost in how to get this going in my Linux (mint). The directions are a little scant for me. I downloaded the Tclforth.zip and Source code (zip) for Tclforth v0.7.0.

I open a terminal and changed director to the source directory. But, the Linux directions "source tfmain.tcl" has me stymied.

Can someone please hold my hand in getting something up and running? I have been using tkinter in python and want to try it in forth.

Once upon a time, back in the 1980's I created a forth compiler for a DataGeneral s/200 and also for a z80 computer. I just installed swiftforth and have been re-learning forth.

Any help to just get this up and running would be appreciated. thank you.

wejgaard commented 5 years ago

Run tclforthx in a terminal. It opens the Tcl console, IOW it is Tcl. You could also open the Tcl system in the Linux distribution, if present. In Tcl "cd " to the source directory in the Tclforth release. Then "source tfmain.tcl" loads Tclforth. ("source" is a Tcl command.) Hope it works now.

keithterrill commented 5 years ago

So, I open a terminal. I changed mode for tclforthx to executable. Then I did:

`$ ./tclforthx

couldn't change working directory to "../../../../source": no such file or directory while executing "cd ../../../../source" (file "/home/share/program/forth/TclForth/source/tclforthx/main.tcl" line 4)

$ `

keithterrill commented 5 years ago

In a terminal I was able to run tclsh. % info patchlevel 8.6.1 source tfmain.tcl launched the TclForth Version 0.7.0