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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Fig-Forth for Commodore Geos!
Message-ID: <9087@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 18:03:59 GMT
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In article <1645@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson) writes:
> Nicholas Vrtis, the enigmatic programmer who gave
> the C64 world a Micro-Lisp (and a very nice one, too) has
> ported the Fig-Forth Forth to the Geos operating system
> for the Commodore 64 ( I assume 128 also, I have not got one
> so am assuming it will work on the 128).
>
> He included support for the mouse, uses VLIR files for
> source, a nice screen editor (point and click on the
> line you want to edit and 'voila' you edit it).  All in all
> it is a real nifty implementation - and... I suppose if enough
> people out there are interested, I could post it to the net.
>
> BTW, his doc file (which is far bigger than the 8k Forth) was
> set up as a Geowrite file, but I would probably send it as a
> text file (smaller, readable on Unix systems, and so on).
>
>  Shalom,
>       Joel.
>
 
Yes, please do..... and thanks.
 
Scott.