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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Sound
- Message-ID: <BtxE26.HsI@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:44:28 GMT
- References: <4024.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
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- In article <4024.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
- >Category 18, Topic 6
- >Message 5 Fri Aug 28, 1992
- >B.DUNN5 [Brian] at 01:16 EDT
- >
- >console SELECT-SOUND and midi SELECT-SOUND and so on is a good idea except
- >that about the only portable sound device would be CONSOLE. Midi might be a
- >second idea, but it is based more on musical notes and less on Hertz. I wish
- >Forths would have a standard I/O redirection wordset, and this would be a good
- >topic some day.
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- DEFERed words are very good for providing redirection of not only I/O,
- but entire function sets. IMHO, is a very underrated facility.
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