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From: marksm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Query about Amiga Forth's
Summary: Looking for a usable Forth for my Amiga
Keywords: Amiga, Forth
Message-ID: <934@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Apr 89 11:29:00 GMT
Reply-To: marksm@syma.susx.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
Organization: University of Sussex
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Greetings, all. I have recently become interested in Forth, and wanted
to pose some questions to those more knowledgeable on the topic than
myself. Please excuse me if I am repeating questions that have recently
been dealt with in either of these groups.

I have what appears to be a freely distributable Forth implementation on
an Amuse disk. (It bears a header saying that it comes from Mountain
Valley Press.) However, there is no form of documentation supplied with
the program. VLIST shows a number of Amiga-specific commands, but I have
thus far been unable to discern their correct syntax, and so I am still
unable to save programs to disk, or load them. I was wondering whether
   a) Someone out there can give me a clue or three, or
   b) Mountain Valley Press will supply documentation. 
In the latter case, could someone tell me the press's address, please?
It is given in the header, but the disk is 3 or 4 years old already, so
I suspect the info is dated.

I would also be interested to hear of any other Amiga Forth's, either
commercial or freely distributable, and what the net's opinions are. I
would really appreciate hearing more, especially since I am presently in
the too-many-books-and-not-enough-working-software stage of the learning
curve. 

Thanks for reading this far.