Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!well!jax
From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Blocks VS Text a compromise
Message-ID: <21231@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 18 Oct 90 03:12:49 GMT
References: <9010151631.AA11190@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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ZMLEB@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Lee Brotzman) writes:

	... stuff ...

>any one time, and with block files I could just as easily edit a 5-block file
>as a 100-block file.  Of course, on larger systems -- even PCs -- this is
>less of a consideration.

	Amen, Bro. Lee ... also, BLOCK files are the *only* truly universally
portable file format in existence! I read Forth screens intended for ANY system
with ANY of the twenty or so Forths that I use with no conversion.

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