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From: koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Deviations
Summary: All About orth Vol II
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Date: 1 Apr 91 16:08:11 GMT
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> Category 10,  Topic 11
> Message 1         Sun Mar 31, 1991
> L.LISLE1 [Greg]              at 18:21 EST
>  
> Trying to translate one of the many fine apps in the library to another
> dialect would be MUCH easier if a listing of the differences was available.  I
> realize this could get massive, I have an old ('79) 360 page book that does
> this for the Basics of that time. However, it would be very helpful to the
> whole Forth community.

Glen Haydon's _All About Forth (2nd. Ed.)_ has most of what you
are looking for.  It is an annotated glossary of common usage
that shows differences between the Forth "standards".  It is
much longer than 360 pages.  Last I heard, FIG sells it.

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