werty has managed to inspire me (or drive me nuts; you be the judge).
Although I have him in my killfile, replies to his posts from the
certifiably sane get through, and one of them has provoked the
following.

Directories, folders and files are a convenient hierarchical structure
on disk or other long term medium; just about every OS has some form of
HFS. So does Forth in its use of search-order words. Can the semantics
be extended to include an HFS, without requiring a whole new wordset,
and be done transparently?

Win32Forth may be unusual in that its wordlists can be defined with a
specific search and create mechanism; the default is to use the
in-memory wordlist. Given that, then as an example, assume a directory
structure of

/
/home
/home/user
/home/user/alex

This could be made to appear in a "vocabulary" (let's call it
FILESYSTEM) defined in FORTH.

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Any mapping string --> something may be thought of as a wordlist.

It would be good to have a portable interface for such "word lists" of
user-definable nature.

There have been at least the following experiments:
1) local names searched in a pseudo-wordlist
2) file paths are considered to be INCLUDE directives (SP-Forth)
3) there was something else, again, text strings converted into a
meaning, but I do not remember what it was for....

[...]

Now you have to find a problem that it would solve.

m_l...@yahoo.com wrote:

There you have hit the nail on the head. Excuse my wertyism.

Alex McDonald wrote:

But, the Forth-83 ONLY/FORTH/ALSO vocabulary system shares something
more in spirit with a hypertext system than with a classical
hierarchical file system.

Indeed, I'd rather have an eight deep file directory search stack with
each item on the stack consisting of a named directory search path,
invoked by name, than a reinvention of the same old POSIX wheel.

And if you had that, you'd have a defining word for the named search
path, and then the name would do what you told it to do using the name
you told it to answer to, like any other Forth word.

m_l_g3@yahoo.com wrote:

Experiments ?!! We have started a context of
using wordlists to eliminate files/folders work on the
programmer and you take us aside with ...

".... Now you have to find a problem that it would solve. "

It is trivial to nix Files/Folders and at same time eliminate
99%% of the other Distractions of old Forth , and this nerd
wants to

"...find a problem it will solve "

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IMO it is no shame to have an idea that you do not yet know how to use.
First you discover an effect, then think out how it may be used.

Alex McDonald wrote:

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Not so convenient , if user must spend most of his time

keying in directives to link his files and ....

WAIT !! There is NO fs that links files !!

It dont exist , so whats your point !!!

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The User must be able to link files !

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