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- NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT July 29, 1987
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- Forth Programmer's Portable Editor
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- A new editor for Forth programmers using the IBM PC or
- compatibles is now available. It is powerful, fast, easy to
- learn and to use, can be customized, and can be used with any
- Forth for the PC. Forth programmers can now have their own
- standard editor, no matter what Forth version they may encounter
- on the PC.
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- The editor is supplied as an object module which can be loaded
- as a resident overlay by any Forth program. It resides in a
- memory segment different from the Forth program by which it is
- loaded. It is available for both stand-alone and DOS resident
- versions of Forth.
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- The editor is screen oriented and has a rich set of line and
- screen Move and Copy functions as well as fast Find, List, and
- Search-and-Replace functions. It can access Forth screens via
- DOS files or direct media read-write (either through DOS or BIOS
- calls). It includes facilities for moving screens between files
- and from files to direct blocks (on the same or different
- media).
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- The editor can be used to edit screens using either of two
- access methods. A single screen at a time may be resident in
- memory or a set of up to sixty contiguous screens may be brought
- into memory and edited as a group. Accessing media a single
- screen at a time allows fast random access to any screen on the
- media, while accessing contiguous sets of up to sixty screens
- provides very fast screen management.
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- FEATURES:
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- * One standard object module1 for any Forth2 for the PC.
- * Loads as a separate module, memory recovered on exiting Forth.
- * Loader requires less than 1K of the resident Forth's memory.
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- * Compatible with DOS based or stand-alone Forths.
- * Provides powerful media management facilities.
- * Insert, Delete, Move, Copy, Exchange, or Import screens.
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- Requires PC or MS-DOS version 2.0 or up and 134K of memory.
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- The editor3 is being introduced at a single copy suggested
- retail price of $20.00 and is also available for vendor
- distribution. Documentation is currently provided as ASCII and
- screen files.
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- Author: Guy M. Kelly 2507 Caminito La Paz La Jolla, CA 92037
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- 1 A second version, optimized for stand-alone Forths is also
- supplied.
- 2 Source load modules currently available for: LMI, F83, MVP,
- UNIFORTH, and PC-Forth. New modules take about an hour to
- create, using one of the available modules as a template.
- 3 A copy of PC-Forth V1.5x is also included.