Re: Creating a console app

Hello Rick,

Sunday, October 12, 2003, 5:08:22 PM, you wrote:

RV> make sure that your application does enough PAUSE equivalents to
RV> keep the system happy.

Hmm. I assume that's why this will crash:

: foo ( -- ) ." bar" cr ;

starter foo
program foo.exe

RV> You only use 'MAIN if you don't want or need a console. In order
RV> to have the console created and active, you must use STARTER; just

However, I don't want the end user access to the SwiftForth system.
I've made a meta-compiler for the ARM that will be non-interactive and
just take a filename as a command line argument. I could use message
boxes to display errors, but I'd rather use an console window if I
could.

--
Best regards,
 Jeff                            mailto:jma_at_mfire.com
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