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RE: Save image word for pbForth.
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
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Mon, 8 Nov 1999 03:01:16 GMT
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> > If you really think I should, I'll roll this into a new release....
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> Well, of course I would like to make it available for community. If you think
> it will not contradict your own ideas, I would be just happy.
This is an important part of what I want pbForth to be. It should be possible
lo load up "precompiled" images to let users put exactly what they want in their
system.
> We can even go further. What do you think about packaging your pbForth with
> all that optional words? Having SAVE-SYSTEM available, you can create few pre-
> packaged images for different purposes. Of course, not all stuff can be used,
> but things like vocabulary management, debugging, conditional compiling, etc.
> would fit well. Actually, I have made few adaptations for myself. Maybe you
> also have something?
Since SAVE-SYSTEM is something you do at the END of the development cyccle
I think it should be loaded by the user and then executed. Or, it could just
be one of our base "versions" that has it included automatically. The images
are so small in compressed SREC format, that distributing them is no
problem.
> > Wait a minute, why not do an xmodem upload of an srec image....then the user
> > would not have to deal with installing cygwin tools on the MAC or linux
> > system...
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> Yes, I've considered it too. But then I decided to make things simple as
> possible. Even now XMODEM code is quite big...
> Do you think it will really help to make it on pbForth side?
> As alternative, I can provide simple decoding utility written on something
> portable.
Portable enough to run on a PalmPilot? I doubt it. The big advantage of saving
an SREC file directly is that NO other tools are necessary. I'll dig around
for some old SREC code I have. The record size in XMODEM is fixed, I see, so
we could just make the SRECORDs fixed length inside the XMODEM packet, right?
Great work, Sergey! I'd like to hear other suggestions..
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| (...) I like the solution proposed by many Forht packages (by hForth in particular): there is a basic kernel and a few different variations with optional wordsets. For myself, I would like to see at least one additional variation to pbForth - image (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Save image word for pbForth.
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| Hi Ralph, Thanks for words of cheers ;) (...) Exactly. My first attempt was to dump out the whole image and make terminal to receive it as a textual file. Uh uh... (...) Well, of course I would like to make it available for community. If you think (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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