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- From: uho@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Ulrich Hoffmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Sampler Forth
- Message-ID: <11041@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:51:13 GMT
- References: <4303@wet.UUCP>
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kiel, FRG
- Lines: 37
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- In <4303@wet.UUCP> jpeters@wet.COM (John A. Peters) writes:
-
- >DOCUMENTATION; Use the resources of the machine! The compiler
- >doesn't do anything with numbers above 127, so use control-C to
- >toggle the high-order bits to 1 and all incoming bytes are 128 or
- >above and are ignored by the compiler. They can be used for
- >comments. On the screen they're dimmer; the printer outputs then
- >as italics. I (Jerry Mueler) did all this a couple of years a go.
- >Type control-C again and you're back into normal forth input.
-
- So you probably don't speak any foreign languages?
-
- 7 Bit Ascii is just not enough to hold all our native (you may call them foreign)
- characters (such as German Umlauts).
-
- Unfortunately even this mail software insists on using only 7 bits,
- so I can't show you any of these, now.
-
- Yes - we use these letters!
- Yes - we have special keys on our keyboards to produce them.
-
- Please DO NOT use the extended ASCII character set for any other purpose than
- representing literal characters!
-
- In this sense, a 'smudge' bit becomes really nasty, since not FIG, nor F83/F-PC
- allow for full 8-Bit characters in word names :-(.
-
-
- Greetings,
-
-
-
- Ulrich
-
- Ulrich Hoffmann email: uh@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de
- Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Kiel Tel: +49 431 560426
- Preusserstr 1-9, D-2300 Kiel 1, Germany Fax: +49 431 566143
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