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From: mburke@eecs.wsu.edu (Matthew Burke - grad student)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Metacompilation in PYGMY 1.3
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.102155.25723@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 10:21:55 GMT
Reply-To: mburke@eecs.wsu.edu (Matthew Burke - grad student)
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My apologies if this posting is a repeat, but I have reason to believe 
that the mailer screwed up the first time:

I just downloaded PYGMY 1.3 from wuarchive.wustl.edu and I have been
playing around with it in my spare time (what spare time? I'm in
grad school).  I have not been able to get the metacompiler to work
and was wodering if anyone else had.

What I thought would solve the problem was when I caught Sergeant's
article in Fourth Dimensions Vol.12, No. 6 where he discusses Metacompilers
in general and the one in PYGMY in specific.

I noticed that the screen pictured in figure four was completely
missing from the copy I had so I promptly remedied this 
(this screen held the definition of TCREATE --- the word that created
the headers in the target dictionary).

I went to run it and guess what, it still doesn't work.  It trips up over
the word VID on screen 28  (this word is defined on screen 24).

As I won't really have much time to dig into this until spring break,
I was hoping someone out in NetLand had similar problems and could
e-mail me a quick fix.

Thanks,
Matt
mburke@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
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