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From: baccala@eng.umd.edu (Brent W. Baccala)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Networking in FORTH
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Date: 28 Apr 91 20:15:11 GMT
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Since my experience with FORTH has been limited to public-domain systems and
those I have designed myself, I have long assumed that commerical FORTHs
provided some additional built-in functions unfamiliar to me.  I assumed
one of these functions to be networking, but have not seen the subject
mentioned in BASIS 15.  Do commerical FORTHs provide network support?

Although many FORTHs are used for embedded control systems where network
isn't (currently) a concern, the rapid growth of LANs and distributed
systems seem to indicate a need for this issue to be addressed in an ANS,
albeit optionally.

Should the FORTH ANS include an optional word set providing basic network
functions, such as name resolution, connection establishment, stream I/O,
datagram I/O, etc?
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					-bwb

					Brent W. Baccala
					baccala@eng.umd.edu