Hi, I am reasonably confident with old dos-based Forth (HSForth) but realise it is now time to start playing with these 'window things'. I am trying to learn...
... Hello, First a quick answer to Dennis : Indeed RS485 and RS232 are very similar. Windows XP will not allow direct hardware access as is possible with DOS...
Hi, I worked with RS485 for several years using Forth. There is no difference in handling than using RS232-Modem. The only thing is you have to have a...
Hi Tony, (A) You can create forms|objects in forth-form and see how the resulting code is created. Its very simple but clever and as you understand a...
Hi John, At http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55294 Win32forth V6.13.00 is noted as developer release, and Win32forth V6.12.00 is noted as...
Hello, I'm trying to install visualforth on Windows XP. In the visualFORTH0111.bat I had to modify the XCOPY on line 24 by c:\windows\system32\XCOPY to make it...
Hi Thierry, VisualForth seems to be build on Win32Forth. So I would recommend to you to install Win32Forth first and then follow the manual of VisualForth for...
Hi Jos, Thanks for your supporting comment! I appreciate it very much! Indeed - and of course - visualFORTH is build on Win32Forth. It is "only" a patch to...
Hello, and thank you very much for your answer. It seems that as I used the "c:\windows\system32 \XCOPY " once now XCOPY alone is recognized ! I've installed...
Hello Dick, Thank you for your clear answer. I just removed the "C:\Program Files\visualFORTH" directory and ran the visualFORTH0111.bat file and that's it !...
Hi Thierry, now I looked through all your emails and I guess the problem is that there is some delay until the emails we send show up at Yahoo-Groups. I was...
Hello Thierry, I am happy to read it worked. If you are not familiar with Forth, you will learn it soon. It is easy to learn and you will enjoy it. The...
Hi, I have a text file which consists of a number of lines. Each line has 7 numbers which are tab-separated. I read a line from a file into a buffer in...
... Hi Prad, ... it standard. I've done some similar stuff to what your trying to do. Here is a snippet of (ugly and verbose) code that you may be able to...
Hi Prad, When I have to read a file with numbers, I do the following: I define everything I do not need as a dummy word, then I load the file, and all numbers...
Try this No guarantee. I am not hte programmer but I have access to him. John A. Peters ... \ $Id: Getat.f,v 1.2 2009/04/17 22:23:48 brookline Exp $...
Hi Dirk, The data is in a file created in excel. The file is then saved as text. In excel you can save as comma separated values or tab-separated. The one I...
Hi John, It will take me a while to work through this one. One thing that does come to mind is that :: #line.bytes #line.addr cursor-line cursor-col ...
... Just a question to the OP, would it make sense to read and process your numbers one at a time rather than stacking them? I'm not up with my Forth enough...
Hi John, It will take me a while to work through this one. One thing that does come to mind is that :: #line.bytes #line.addr cursor-line cursor-col ...
... <snip>> > ... Again to the OP, but you are right Rick. As pointed out by others in this thread, you can easily blow up the stack if your spreadsheet ...
I have been able to adapt the solutions given previously. Thomas's one was easier for me to understand. George's one was neat ( not something I would have...
Hi, I typed in the following and --> shows what I get. Scan does what I expect, but skip seems to do nothing. What does skip do ? (1) s" 23 45 12" 32...
... skip ( addr len char -- ) will skip all characters that match with char and then stop. Your example does nothing because the first character is not 109...
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