Welcome! This is an ANS Forth compatibility package for F-PC. ---------------------------------------------------- After loading this package F-PC provides (some of) the ANS Forth Standard word sets. The package currently consists of the following files: File Description Revision Status ALLANSI SEQ Loadfile 1.3 released ANSI SEQ core & core ext word sets 1.9 released CONDCOMP SEQ [IF] ... 1.4 released DOUBLE SEQ double number word set 1.4 released FACILITY SEQ facility word set 1.4 released FILESET SEQ file word set 1.4 released STRING SEQ string word set 1.3 released This package is public domain software. To learn more about the ANS Forth Standard you might want to get the X3J14 Standard document from ANSI. Be warned however that it is not inexpensive. An electronic version of the final draft is available at http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans.html This package has been tested with F-PC final (3.6) release, as well as some earlier releases. The final release can be found at taygeta. To use the compatibility package copy all above files into a single directory. Then include ALLANSI.SEQ from within F-PC. For each ANS Forth word set a vocabulary is defined to hold the standard definitions of this word set. This allows to selectively activate word sets by modifying the F-PC vocabulary search order. In addition by excluding FORTH from the search order you can write strict ANS Forth programs. If you include FORTH in the search order you can write F-PC programs with standard elements. I hope this will give you a smooth transition to ANS Forth. Please send bug reports and comments to me: Ulrich Hoffmann Sehestedter Strasse 26 D-24340 Eckernfoerde Germany Tel. 04351 712 217 email: uho@pizzicato.kbbs.org Ulrich.E.Hoffmann@gmx.de Eckernfoerde November 1995, (revised August 1997) Ulrich Hoffmann