Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!NMFECC.ARPA!SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET From: SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: (none) Message-ID: <870126120903.082@nmfecc.arpa> Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 15:09:03 EST Article-I.D.: nmfecc.870126120903.082 Posted: Mon Jan 26 15:09:03 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Jan-87 19:32:42 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 52 From: SECRIST@OAK.SAINET.MFENET To: INFO-APPLE@BRL.ARPA From: (Richard C. Secrist) To: INFO-APPLE@BRL.Arpa Subject: TransFORTH Date: Mon, 26-JAN-1987 10:38 EST Header-Disclaimer: I don't like my headers either ! X-VMS-Mail-To: APPLE > From: Bruce > Subject: FORTH Languages > To: INFO-APPLE@BRL.ARPA > > ... > help from the net. I picked up FlexFORTH and TransFORTH but have no > idea how to operate them. FlexFORTH seems more like the FORTH described > by Leo Brodie in his book, Starting FORTH, while TransFORTH seems to > > Bruce Bartholomew TransFORTH is a proprietary product of the now defunct Insoft company, and was written by Paul Lutus who is also known for GraFORTH and Applewriter. As it is a proprietary product of a defunct company I do not believe there is any way to get a manual for it except asking your friend if he still has it someplace. TransFORTH is a generic polyglot forth (i.e. fig and Forth-79 hybird) with a built-in editor and the ability to compile its code to Apple an flavored 6502 binary image. TransFORTH is the scientific sister of GraFORTH, the latter being extended for graphics and the former being extended for math and other programming. Outside of their extensions, both are very much alike. You may be intersted in the six-part series that SOFTALK ran on GraFORTH several years ago - I can dig up dates if you're interested. This article was republished in part without the illustrations in an issue of FORTH DIMENSIONS, published by the Forth Interest Group. I managed to get GraFORTH through a SOFTSEL distributor about a year ago (for full retail) despite the fact that Insoft, Inc. has long since died. You might find it anew through a local distributor, or you might check into the backroom of your local computer store and find it cheap. After purchasing it I wrote Insoft and Paul Lutus for further information on the possibility of distributing a product written in GraFORTH, but the letter was returned "moved, left no forwarding address". Richard Secrist SECRIST%OAK.SAInet.MFEnet@nmfecc.Arpa Pres., East Tenn. FIG Chapter