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- User's Guide for
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- 8086/8088 Fig-FORTH
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- Release 1.0
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- With Compiler Security
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- Variable Length Words
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- March 1981
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- MS-DOS File Interface and Revisions
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- July 1983
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- This program and documentation are released to the public
- domain. The FIG-FORTH listing is made available by the
- FORTH Interest Group, PO Box 1105, San Carlos, CA 94070
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- Modified for MS-DOS and documented by J.E. Smith, U. of
- Penn./Dept.of Chem, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (to whom
- inquiries should be directed).
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- Any further distribution of this software is strictly
- encouraged, as long as you don't get rich and keep it all
- for yourself.
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- If you modify this revised version and re-distribute your
- own version, it would be polite to notify the author of
- these revisions, and to take responsibility for your
- modifications.
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- 8086/8088 Fig-FORTH User's Guide Page 2
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- 1 QUICK REFERENCE
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- This is a summary of information necessary to use FIG-FORTH
- and it's documentation.
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- 1.1 System Requirements
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- FORTH requires the following system resources:
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- * an 8086 or 8088 CPU running MS-DOS version 1.10 or
- 1.25
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- * 64K of available RAM, or about 100K total
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- * one or two disk drives
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- 1.2 Invocation
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- FORTH is started by typing the following in response to the
- COMMAND prompt.
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- FORTH <commands>
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- Where <commands> is an optional list of FORTH words to be
- executed.
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- FORTH normally uses a special disk. To use MS-DOS files,
- the following commands are available:
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- A: selects drive A
- B: selects drive B
- DIR" <filename>" lists matching file information
- FILES" <filename>" lists matching file names
- USING" <filename>" selects <filename> for screen access
- EOF closes current screen file
- LOAD" <filename>" loads the screens in <filename>
- ERASE" <filename>" erases any matching files
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- Note: NEVER change any disk while FORTH