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On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 11:41 PM, René Ferland wrote:

Hello Mark,

It looks like the treatment of character data is rather primitive in this version of FORTH. A string with no blanks can be printed with the command .' (dot apostrophe). You need a blank after the .' otherwise I think it wants to interpret what you typed as a number to be put on the stack (hence the error message):

Now I am thoroughly confused. I have no idea where HELLO is being saved. I erased FORTH $PROG$ A, and logged off, then logged back in ...

L XMAS
ENTER PASSWORD:
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DASD 190 LINKED R/O; R/W BY MAINT; R/O BY 004 USERS
DASD 19D LINKED R/O; R/W BY MAINT; R/O BY 002 USERS
DASD 19E LINKED R/O; R/W BY MAINT; R/O BY 004 USERS
DASD 5E5 LINKED R/O; R/W BY MAINT
LOGON AT 18:46:11 GMT TUESDAY 06/07/22
VM Community Edition V1 R1.1
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Y (19E) R/O
U (19D) R/O
B (5E5) R/O
E (194) R/O
T (196) R/O
R (193) R/O
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 18:46:13
forth
'FORTH $PROG$ A'? File does NOT exist
FORTH ready
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: HELLO
:???????? program PREVIOUSLY defined
HELLO???? Invalid NUMERIC field
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: HI
:???????? program PREVIOUSLY defined
HI??????? Invalid NUMERIC field
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end
Do you want to save your extensions (Y/N)?
Y
Your FORTH extensions saved
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 18:47:17
type forth $prog$ a
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$
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Ready; T=0.01/0.01 18:47:26