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Subject: Forth in the Marketplace
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Date: 19 Dec 90 12:54:34 GMT
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 Date: 12-15-90 (07:55)              Number: 557 of 573
   To: THOMAS MCWILLIAMS             Refer#: 502
 From: STEVE PALINCSAR                 Read: NO
 Subj: SMALL FORTH                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 You can use both HS/Forth and LMI's forths for producing turnkey EXE
 programs.

 I know only hearsay about LMI's products, but have been using HS/Forth
 for several years now.  Everything I do with it gets TURNKEYed and
 distributed as an EXE file that, when running, is an application like
 any other application, regardless of the language used for production.
 I find that the minimum size of an EXE file produced is about 24K,
 ranging up to a maximum (assuming you do not have large amounts of
 buffer space saved within the dictionary, etc.) of 35-40K for a complex
 program.  An extremely complex application of mine, with many saved
 screens, internal data files, etc., is 71K.

 The process of producing a turnkey application is quite simple.  After
 having written the program, with a top level word like DO_IT that does
 the entire thing, from start-up to BYE, load the SEAL utility, rearrange
 system segments for compaction if you wish to (rearranging the segments
 so that headers and any user-defined data buffers in segments will be
 discarded rather than saved as part of the on-disk image results in huge
 savings) enter the following: TURNKEY [turnkeyword] [filename.exe].

 TURNKEYed applications may be distributed freely without any royalties,
 licensing fees, etc.

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