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Subject: Pygmy Forth v.1.2
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Date: 7 Jan 90 02:07:16 GMT
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Category 1,  Topic 45
Message 13        Fri Jan 05, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 23:57 CST
 
  Steve, thanks for your comments about Pygmy version 1.1.  The new version
1.2 solves the problem of the two *.COM files: it has a single executable file
that configures itself for either color or monochrome monitors automatically.

  You have a good point about the *.DOC files.  Many people would expect them
to be easily readable with a text editor, but they are block files (and easily
readable from Pygmy).  The only file that should be read with a regular text
editor (or DOS's TYPE) is README.PGY.

  I don't recall the original file description, but the current file
description for v 1.2 does not say Pygmy's purpose is to be educational. 
Pygmy's purpose is to give me something to do instead of what I should be
doing when I don't feel like doing what I should be doing, which is most of
the time.  68HC11 assemblers can also serve that purpose.  Another purpose I
had for Pygmy was to give me a workhorse Forth for application development for
my own use.  If other people get some use or pleasure out of it that is an
extra bonus to me. I mean, I think it can serve to educate, but that is not
its primary purpose.  I do hope to put together a package just for teaching
Forth to raw beginners someday and will take your suggestions to heart for it
and any future upgrades to Pygmy.

  -- Frank
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