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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Where can I get Forth
Message-ID: <4682@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 13:12:01 GMT
References: <113549@felix.UUCP>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <113549@felix.UUCP>, art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) says:
> How about the C-Forth package that was posted some time ago?  Has
> worked fine on Ultrix 2.2, UNIX V7, BSD4.{1,2}.  I have not tried it
> on Yuck-DOS but I don't recall anything that would prevent it.  If you
> cannot find it in one of the sources archives, let me know and we can
> work something out.

If you're talking about Alann Pratt's cforth, it requires that int's
be twice as long as shorts and shorts are 16 bits. The notes with it
claim you can go through and change int to long and short to int, but
I've never tried it.

I found my copy via ftp at uunet:/comp.sources.unix/volume1


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