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From: gamber@cosmo.UUCP (Johannes Teich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: File handling tips
Keywords: Commodore 64, volksForth
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Date: 28 Mar 89 18:14:28 GMT
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In a message of <21 Mar 89 23:13 GMT>, Thomas Rolfs (trolfs@vax1.tcd.ie) writes:
 
 > I bought Forth for my computer (commodore 64) to replace the BASIC and
 > was immediately won over to it. Nobody I know is interested in Forth
 > and so I have had to read up on it in books and learn by trial and error.
 
Nobody is interested - well, that's our fate. :-)
 
 > 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
 
As I don't have a C64 (only Z80 and 80286 and 68000), I cannot say anything
about it. Are you using a file system? If so, then you have a good chance
to speed the machine up dramatically by writing to disk directly, like
'classical' Forth, just block by block, similar to writing to RAM.
 
By the way, if I had a C64, I surely would buy volksForth (or ultraForth),
offered by Forth-Gesellschaft, Germany. But I'm afraid there is only a
German manual. (I have got volksForth for Atari-ST and MS-DOS.)
 
I'm amazed by the fact that neither Doublin nor Ireland is represented
in the worldwide FidoNet, where I try to keep the discussion about Forth
alive, at least in Germany. Anyway, I am watching 'comp.lang.forth' as well.
 
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