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From: chayter@sabik.usc.edu (Carl J. Hayter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Query about Amiga Forth's
Keywords: Amiga, Forth
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Date: 1 May 89 07:52:53 GMT
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In article <934@syma.sussex.ac.uk> marksm@syma.susx.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen) writes:
*>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.


well, i taught myself forth with MVP-Forth by reading the source 
code that was included on the disk.  if they will send documentation,
i don't know.  their address, i don't know.  

however, there is hope, if some nice person will repost the FTP
site that has A4th, get it, documentation, includes, everything 
that you could ever need or want.

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: carl ." looking for a good time" ;