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Subject: nephyte needs f83 examples & examples
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Date: 27 May 91 18:55:28 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 33
Message  38       Sat May 25, 1991
P.VARN [Paul Varn]           (Forwarded) 
 
Thanks ELLIOT.C for your note.

When you mentioned TOP and IND, TOP is some kind of screen position? I
couldn't find any reference to IND or do you mean INDEX? Your mention of
CREATE-FILE is interesting.  That's the command I've been tryin to use that
locks up when I use it.  Every mention I've seen of it has cloudy reference to
its use syntax.  You've given me a good clue with n CREATE-FILE <name>.  I'm
going to give that a try. Any other handy file specific words I should know?

At one point I did manage to save and open a file I created by re-naming an
existing file from the OS and using the Forth editor to WIPE the blocks.  I
then wrote into them, saved and opened them. One of my blocks where I tried a
wild experiment loaded and executed (something REALLY simple).  I tried the
teaching example from the beginning of Brodie's book in another block and it
wouldn't load and execute although there was nothing wrong with the text. I'm
off to do some more playing.  If someone has a suggestion for any text in the
library that might address some beginner questions and words specific to the
ST I have an ear.
 -Pv-

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