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Subject: Re: Networking with Forth
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Date: 29 Apr 91 14:37:05 GMT
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                            Networking in Forth.

Some commercial systems DO have networking words.  We have developed a network
package for our   FORTH++   system.  This will be included as part of the
standard system on the next revision.

We have conducted some vary interesting experiments with our network package.
The system is described in a paper I sent to JFAR.

To include anything to do with networking in the standard would (a) not get
in, and (b) is a rotten idea.  The only way to standardise on such an issue
(if indeed we want to standardise) is for people to describe the words that
they have defined to use in such a situation.

Bill Stoddart

Peter Knaggs
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