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(...) Lucky you! We had just some cm's and its all melting away today:( Ok, here's a new version of SEE, WORDS and friends for pbforth 2.x (tested on 2.1.5). First there are some words (Graphic? ... Head) which actually exist in pbforth, but without (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I did not explain my problem properly but you got it anyway! I do use EKEY? before EKEY, but sometimes EKEY seems to block. Thanks for taking your time to look into this. As for the new word (wow!), in Forth-79, there was a word called ?KEY (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I should help with this tooo, maybe this weekend. Sigh. We just got between 60cm and 90 cm of fresh snow, so snowboarding and shovelling will be the primary activities, unless the roads are closed - which does happen frequently... Ralph (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) EKEY always waits for input. Use EKEY? to see if anything is available... Looking at the source, I see that there is a possiblity that in the time between checking for a character with EKEY? and actually reading it with EKEY, that an error can (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) There used to be:-) My code was written for pbforth 1.x which turned to be incompatible with 2.x (I've been out of contact with pbForth for some time and only recently got my RCX back). My fault for not testing it on the current version. Mea (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) On a plain pbForth system I get errors when trying to load this code. What do you mean by "wordlist extensions required"? Is there source code available somewhere which adds the wordlist extensions to pbForth? My pbForth doesn't know about (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Ralph, one more question. Are there conditions where the word EKEY would wait for input (like KEY)? It seems to happen in my program. Thanks (20 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Hi I've tried to reproduce your code but Bricx has a limit on its line length. Is there an easy way round this problem or do I have to split the longer word definitions. David Liddell. (20 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Thanks Ralph. I'll try this. I might have followed the wrong track but I got to this 'test program' trying to solve the problem I have in my 'real' program: I'm writing a PbForth version of the Trailerbot (Luis Villa, Extreme Mindstorms). The (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hmmm The blip and LCD clearing, while useful for debugging may be messing things up. The characters are coming in way faster than the blip time, so you may not be reading the buffer fast enough. I would put code at the end of getHeader that (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) snip snip (...) ===...=== Ralph, any idea on this? Thanks (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Long time no see:) Below is source for .S DUMP WORDS and SEE. Usage of the individual words should be basically clear, but I have some remarks nontheless: - Those words were originally embedded in a collection of words that I always load. I (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ernst! Good to see you're still among us. I'd be happy to post your WORDS and SEE (with appropraite credit) and write up a little tutorial on their usage. You can post them here and also email them to me directly. Cheers, Ralph (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I wrote WORDS and SEE and some other useful stuff for pbforth 1.21. SEE is a bit rough, it doesn't handle IF, LOOP etc. very graciously but just dumps out bytes. If the dictionary structure hasn't changed in 2.0 they should still work. If (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Well, not *very* important, perhaps (no need to hurry), but it'd be useful. I haven't done very much FORTH programming since the 80's, and I even then I wasn't exactly a pro FORTHer. Also, I was used to F-PC (and/or TCOM), and my FORTH (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Ah, I didn't know of that. (...) BTW, I'd like to suggest (to Ralph, not you) that the pbForth scripts included in the release should use .4th or .fth or something a bit more distinctive. They're now .txt, so BricxCC does not recognize them. (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) snip A while ago, I started to work on a few words that I find useful,including WORD and SEE. I still have to finish them, but what would help is to know the structure of the dictionary (starting with the execution address obtained by tick (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) The pbForth documentation which is included with the latest release of BricxCC indicates which of the ANS FORTH words are supported by pbForth. If you open a forth document (one with an extension which BricxCC recognizes as a forth document) (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Good questions Juanma! If WORDS is very important for you, I can write up a quick tutorial on how to do that. I'm pretty sure all of the CORE or REQUIRED ANS Forth words are supported. I'll need to update my build script to output a list of the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Is there any way in pbForth to list the currently defined words, à la WORDS? Also, is there any document that list which ANS FORTH words are supported by pbForth (other than reading the source, I mean)? Thanks. (20 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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