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From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Subject: [comp.lang.forth] C-Forth, via anonymous ftp
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Archive-name: languages/forth/c-forth/1991-01-06
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Original-subject: C-Forth, via anonymous ftp
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I picked up a copy of C-Forth, a public domain Forth Interpreter
available via anonymous ftp from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu a while back.
I didn't know much forth and didn't have any impetus at the time to
learn more than I knew, so it sat there.

I'm now trying to write a system that I hope to be able to use
on the 8051 Forth (if I ever get to that point) to implement
a planetary clock project that has been floating around in my
"in" box for ages.

When I asked the Moderator of this group for a copy of BASIS14
so that I had some idea what the dictionary words were supposed
to do, he said that there would be quite a bit of interest
in a Forth interpreter than runs on Unix, which is what this is.

It claims to be a "complete figFORTH implementation" with the exception
of VOCABULARY and DEFINITION, and has some extensions from DrDobbs.

I'm not entirely sure it's a wonderfully working version--either I
know so little that I just don't know how, or else the mechanism
for reading block files (automatically) doesn't work.  The Author
includes a block file with the UNTHREAD utility and a forth screen
editor.  When you start the interpreter, it's *supposed* (I think)
to automatically load the block file.  It even says "There are 28
screens in the block file".  But when you try to display or load
any of those screens, they appear to be blank.

So there you go, that's about all I understand enough of to comment on.
If you're looking for a Forth to run on Unix, this one appears to work
other than what I just mentioned.  I just don't know enough Forth to
tell for certain.
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Pete Hartman		pwh@bradley.bradley.edu			Haazavaa?