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From: trolfs@vax1.tcd.ie (Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: File handling tips
Message-ID: <37859@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 21 Mar 89 23:13:02 GMT
Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
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 I bought Forth for my computer (commodore 64) to replace the BASIC and was 
immediately won over to it. Nobody I know is interseted in Forth and so I
have had to read up on it in books and learn by trial and error. I now feel 
I have a good understanding of Forth and want to develop my system so I can 
do some serious programing.

 One of the things I'm not happy with is the disk operations. My disk drives
are slow and INDEXing takes forever. What I want to do is develop file
handling primitives and directory(s) structuring (ie not have to INDEX).

 Maybe someone out there has some ideas about this. 

 I would be gratefully for any tips as I have too many ideas and they're 
probably bad.

 Thanks 

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                                Thomas Rolfs.
                                                 (trolfs@vax1.tcd.ie)
                                                  Dublin,
                                                  Ireland.