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\ UTILS.HLP Help file various utilities.
Set FUDGE to adjust period of MS.
MS delays about n MilliSeconds.
This clearly depends on your system clock speed.
Adjust FUDGE until the delay is right.
U<= Unsigned less than or equal.
U>= Unsigned greater than or equal.
<= Less than or equal.
>= Greater than or equal.
0<= Less than or equal to zero.
0>= Greater than or equal to zero.
LMARGIN is the column number of the left margin.
RMARGIN is the column number of the right margin.
?LINE Move to left margin on next line if we will be past the
right margin after printing n characters.
?CR Move to left margin on next line if we are past the
right margin.
LARGEST (S addr n -- addr' val )
Given a address and a number of words to examine, return
the address and the value of the largest entry in the
array.
#TIMES A variable that keeps track of how many times.
TIMES ( n -- )
Re-execute the input stream a specified number of times.
MANY (S -- )
Re-execute the input stream until the user presses a key.
:: compile and execute nameless FORTH code, then forget it.
N Make the Next screen the current one.
B Make the previous (Before) screen the current one.
L List the current screen.
FOUND A local variable to make life easier.
SCAN-1ST SCAN for first character of a string if ignoring case
otherwise do nothing. This makes SEARCH much faster when case
is significant.
SEARCH ( sadr slen badr blen -- n f )
Search for the s string inside of the b string. If found
f is true and n is the offset from the beginning of the
string to where the pattern was found. If not found, f is
false and n is meaningless.
The following parameters are input to the string operators:
sa string-address sl string-length
ba buffer-address bl buffer-length
ba bl sl DELETE deletes sl characters from the start of
the buffer, filling the end with spaces.
sa sl ba bl INSERT inserts the minimum of sl or bl characters
into ba from sa.
sa sl ba bl REPLACE overwrites the minimum of sl or bl
characters onto ba from sa.
PAGE Printer dependent. Get to a new page. Increment the
page number and reset the line number and the column number.
FORM-FEED Print a form feed character.
(PAGE) Print enough linefeeds to get to next page.
TEXT? (S Scr# -- f )
Given a screen number, returns true if the first character
in the screen is printable and the screen is not blank.