Quick Forth Question

[Roger Merchberger]

Dudez & Dudettez:

I'm trying to get some SnapForth ROMs running for the Panasonic HHC 'puter 
- and I'm having a bit'o'difficulty, mainly as I know... ummm... "squat" 
about Forth. ;^>

I've gotten the ROMs to be able to start SnapForth, ask for a filename, 
create the filename & filespace (about 1K of RAM goes "buh-bye" for every 
filename I make... ;-) but no matter what I type, all I get is "Can't Find 
xxxxx" where xxxxx seems to be any durned thing I type.

It can't seem to make new words, and every simple "Hello World" type 
proggie I've found on the net makes *no* sense to the 'puter.

It looks like it has a max. of 4-character words... duh, waitaminit... 
lemme check the ROMs again... *maybe* 5-character words, as it looks like 
the last character of the word is OR'ed with $80... It looks like it's got 
quite a few words, looking at the ROMs in ASCII - I found VARIA, CONST, 
STRIN, CVECT, JUMP....

I could provide a clip of the ROM word table if it would help...

I've tried:

100 LLL !
[[ To try to store the variable 100 in LLL ]]
100 VAR DORK
100 VARI DORK
100 VARIA DORK
100 VARIABLE DORK
[[ To try to store the variable 100 in DORK ]]
100 CONS BURP
100 CONST BURP
[[ To try to make BURP a constant of 100 ]]

I've also tried:

.S
DROP
." Hello World"

and other things I'd seen in various webpages thanks to Google.

Anyone got any other idears for me?

Thanks,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | A new truth in advertising slogan
SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy...
zmerch at 30below.com          |                         ...in oxymoron!"