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Subject: Forth Implementation
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Date: 4 Nov 90 00:27:10 GMT
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Category 3,  Topic 24
Message 93        Sat Nov 03, 1990
J.BLACK13 [John Black]       at 12:29 EST
 
I'm having a little problem with PYGMY Forth. What I want to do is simple. I
want to read a binary file, alter the filepointer to skip some header bytes,
and copy the rest of the file to a diskfile or printer.  FILE-READ(buf cnt f# -
) seems to be the right command. However, when cnt >= decimal 25 the command
goes into an endless loop filling up my screen with garbage.  Also, even when
I read succesfully using a low cnt, I can't find the resulting information in
the buffer. (Mainly, I've tried looking thru the buffer using DUMP). I'm not a
total novice with Forth, but this one has me puzzled. Any suggestions?? 
Thanks

JEB
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