Hm, my first message for this seen's to be lost somewere in the net... So let's try it again. While I have LOADED?, NEEDS and friends made work in within...
Hello, ?LOADING was defined a a variable in older Win32Forth versions. Now it is defined as a colon definition. Block.f still depends on ?LOADING being defined...
Hello Alex, it look's like you have removed the 'byte flag' from the headers in the STC-Kernel. In the old kernel the 'byte flag' was used to store the ...
Hello, while porting NEEDS and friend to the STC-Kernel I figured out, that the search path support in w32f is completely broken by design. For example try...
... How are you connected to the Internet? Do you use ADSL? Did you switch off the Autodisconnect option in the menu Options? When you send a msg the SMTP...
... this ... for the ... of an ... Ouch... ... No, imho the example for exported words tends to indicate the old callback does it wrong. And CALL is using the...
... The current directory might be different from the Forth directory. SRC and later LIB are often used. So I think it would be nice to include them in the...
... I actually started the STC version so long ago that the DEPRECATED flag wasn't in the version of Win32Forth I was using as a starting point! Looking back,...
... There's a series of docs that I'm writing at the moment; I'll be posting up a few more tonight. I'd like to gather and edit them together, with any...
Alex, ... Thanks for your efforts on the design and even more thanks for attempting to document it. I've been reading your design documentation with interest....
Part of the major change to the STC version is in the compiler, where a technique for smart COMPILE, is employed. A standard Forth compiler has an xt...
... That's true. However, there's currently a lot of stack juggling that goes on, and I wanted to make sure that there were as few areas for possible errors to...
... over again. ... attempting to ... than I'm ... appreciate ... like a ... carve out ... I'm pleased with the design, which it must be said is not mine; I...
... Assuming you have access to the source text, you could keep a list of machine-code length/source code length pairs. You'd terminate the list ... ... If...
... That works fine if you have the source; but what about words like ... x y that generate words; or for words entered at the console? ... That's fine. The...
Andrey Cherezov, got any instructions to go along with this file? Assume I want to create an internet connection, how do I go about it? I am desperately...
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:03:25PM +0100, Alex McDonald blows Trey's ... You could save the text for words entered from the console, but I don't see any way to...
... Try searching for: CreateSocket I asume you mean how to start to exchange information over the internet since your broadband line is always online. By...
The original FIg-Forth ?LOADING back in '77 was not a variable -- it was an action word that left a flag. That is incompatible style to ?DUP which is an...
Hello Andy, ... wow... that's about 30 years ago... I never used FIG-Forth. I started with Forth (LMI's UR/Forth) back in '89 and there we had Forth 83 already...
Hi -- I am developing a commercial product which is built on top of a virtual machine modeled after Chuck Moore's Machine Forth. I have just added Jim...
... Win32Forth has a special dispensation from Jim; the licence is LGPL for the assembler. For all other uses, the licence is GPL. It's a bit like using GCC to...
Alex -- Thank you very much for your reply. I don't think I'm going to be able to use Jim Schneider's assembler (which is a shame, because I just spent a ...
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I've got pointer.f working in STC, however because path.f uses current- dir$, which in turn uses new$ before the pointers are initialised I added a line to set...
IN the STC version the synonym of needs has been nemed requires. The correct Forth200X proposal is for require (i.e. no s), which is also in the ITC version....
I noticed that defer@ has been replaced by action-of in 486asm.f. I think we should let Jim Scheider know about the change (I actually left it as defer@, so...
... Hello George, I tried to build a new kernel end extend if with your pointer. But it doesn't work. There is a conflict with Alex latest gkernel changes he...
... current- ... after ... the ... case ... but I ... any ... Replacement is with DP>. Preferably, replace >APPLICATION and APPLICATION> with ... get-section...