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Subject: ANS Forth
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Date: 22 Apr 91 15:10:00 GMT
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This is a small reply to a long message from John J Wavrik. What I think
is that he's comparing ANS Forth with another Forth that we currently use.
I would like to know what Forth we currently use. I, for example, use TCOM
and F-PC 3.53, both from the same guy, and distributed in a same package...
and I can't use comma as John J Wavrik has said we use in neither one.

In fact, he speaks of Parameter Field Address, a.k.a. BODY, wich, to my point
of view, is the DATA Area of ANS Forth. This is the only way I can use comma,
without having to change the code, in both Forths I use.

                              (8-DCS)
Daniel C. Sobral
UNBCIC@BRFAPESP.BITNET

P.S.: I'm currently working in a OOI written upon ANS Forth. I'm using ZEN,
and looks like it provides everything I need from the Standard (except for
?ENVIROMENT). I'll post more notes on that late.