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From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: C-Forth, via anonymous ftp
Message-ID: <22466@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 7 Jan 91 04:03:52 GMT
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pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) writes:

>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.

	The C-Forth which you have is Allan Pratt's trailblazing
C-coded Forth interpreter from WayBackWhen. You have to take especial
note of the instructions for compilation and of the instructions
for screen file loading to make it work.

	The more modern CForth-83 from Mitch Bradley (wmb@sun.com)
(shareware, $40) is eminently more satisfactory for actual usage.

	If you want an 8051 Forth for free, download the appropriate
eForth file from any ForthNet BBS, including the RCFB, number below.

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