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Subject: for us beginners?  Help
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Date: 28 Jul 90 01:38:49 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 5
Message 156       Thu Jul 26, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 22:51 EDT
 
Re: CINDY BARTORILLO

 >  encouraging to hear that there's enough big-time interest in
 > Forth to keep your company going

Unfortunately, we are not kept going by selling Forth.  No Forth vendor really
is.  We pay the bills by selling custom consulting work, and work on the
language so that we can sell liscenses to our clients.  Unfortunate, but true.

 > we never had a secret handshake!

Nor a song!  :-(

 > F-PC is beautifully easy to use, but the .SEQ files instead
 > of the block stuff has thrown me a curve.

There are advantages to both methods, but I agree with you that I prefer block
files because that is what I am used to.

DaR
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