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From: valencia@vger.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: vforth--a VAX forth
Message-ID: <197@vger.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-May-85 22:02:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 27 22:02:32 1985
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Keywords: vax, forth source


	It seems that a fair number of users on this group
do not receive net.sources, as my offer of VFORTH has met with
a fairly large number of requests. What I propose, therefore,
is to post the source to vforth to this net group (net.lang.forth).
I know this isn't quite kosher, so I'll hold off on the actual
posting for a couple days, and see how hot the flames get.

	For those of you who HAVE seen vforth before, let me
add that a couple bugs have been fixed, the numeric input routines
tightened, and several things longword aligned (resulting in a nominal
10% perfomance improvement).  The dictionary free space now uses
".comm" so that a 1Mb dictionary no longer results in a 1Mb
executable file (whew). Finally, the bit shift operations ala "C"
have been added ("<<" and ">>").

				Keep the faith,
				Andy Valencia