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Subject: Forth in print
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Date: 17 Jan 90 00:52:42 GMT
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 Date: 01-15-90 (13:42)              Number: 2784
   To: ALL                           Refer#: NONE
 From: MICHAEL HAM                     Read: (N/A)
 Subj: TOC OF NEW FORTH BOOK         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Here is the book's table of contents:

                         Table of Contents

                Introduction
            1.  How to Read This Book

       Part I:  First steps
            2.  Your First Program
            3.  Polishing the Program
            4.  Saving Your Program

       Part II:  Controlling the screen and basic structures
            5.  A Title Screen and Other Display Magic
            6.  Loops Within Loops:  An Example

       Part III:  Building a menu (and learning a lot)
            7.  Moving Toward a Menu
            8.  Characters from the Keyboard
            9.  Making a Choice
           10.  Return to Loops
           11.  Closer to the Menu
           12.  Making the Menu At Last

       Part IV:  Your own database of mailing addresses
           13.  The Printer and the Disk
           14.  Collecting Strings 
           15.  Building the Record: the Plan
           16.  Building the Record: the Program
           17.  Making a Real Live Program

       Part V:  Some useful tools
           18.  Out of Sorts?  Here's One You'll Like
           19.  Double the Precision, Double the Fun
           20.  Converting Numbers into Strings
           21.  Double-Precision at Work
           22.  Collecting Numbers from the Keyboard

       Part VI:  Harnessing the powers of DOS
           23.  DOS Filenames:  Correction versus Prevention
           24.  DOS and Forth
           25.  From BLOCK to File

       Part VII:  The special powers of Forth
           26.  Inside Forth
           27.  Defining Words

       Part VIII:  Floating point, graphics, and final remarks
           28.  Just When You Thought You Were Safe from Numbers
           29.  Return to the Screen
           30.  Remarks on Design

                Bibliography


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