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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Subject: Re: Sampler Forth
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- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 17:39:28 GMT
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- References: <4303@wet.UUCP> <11041@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
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- In <11041@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de> uho@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Ulrich Hoffmann) writes:
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- >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 :-(.
-
- FIG and F-PC may use the "smudge" bit, but it's not a requirement of the
- Forth 83 standard by any means. In fact, you can even have a fairly
- traditional header without it. If you eliminate the FIG concept of
- "WIDTH" (so the header always has all the characters saved), you can get
- from anf to alf with "COUNT +". And if you restrict the characters in a
- name to BL or greater, and the count to 31 or less, you can easily test
- for the length byte when going from alf to anf (31 <).
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