FMOD in Forth3332 (10/5/2004 2:23:05 AM) comp.lang.forth After re-reading DPANS94, Floating Point Extensions, I find there is no equivalent of the C library function fmod() which returns the remainder (fractional part) of the result of dividing two fp numbers. Needi... Krishna
serial.fs and syscalls for gforth022 (9/18/2004 5:22:39 AM) comp.lang.forth A proper way to handle serial port i/o under gforth running on 386 compatibles with Linux is now available. The code, serial.fs, which is the same as kForth's serial.4th, relies on the support file, syscalls386... Krishna
signal handling in Unix Forths1627 (8/31/2004 4:09:49 AM) comp.lang.forth I am designing an interface in kForth for signal handling --- I have a pressing need to run a task periodically (about every 50 ms) in the background and I can use the SIGALRM signal to accomplish this. Thus f... Krishna
bug in FSL dynmem.seq026 (7/17/2004 4:38:34 AM) comp.lang.forth In playing with Marcel Hendrix's new fp matrix-mult benchmark, I found a bug in the FSL auxiliary file, dynmem.seq. The problem is with "}}free". It's current definition, in v 1.9 of the file, is: : }}free ... Krishna
ANN: kForth version 1.2.6 for Linux342 (6/21/2004 4:43:55 AM) comp.lang.forth A significant upgrade of the kForth package for Linux is now available at http://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth.html Please see the link to the revisions page for details on changes to kForth. In a nutshe... Krishna
ANN: qm6.4th025 (2/20/2004 2:03:28 AM) comp.lang.forth After a prolonged period of development, the next Forth module in my Quantum Mechanics Demo series has been released on the kForth Programming Examples Page: http://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth4.html... Krishna
problem with FSL runge4 under gforth320 (2/12/2004 5:03:00 AM) comp.lang.forth I ran into the following problem when running a runge4.seq test routine under gforth 0.6.x: -- include fsl-util.seq include dynmem.seq TRUE to TEST-CODE? : S>F S>D D>F ; include runge4.seq 100 lorenz_tes... Krishna
Forth Presentation1326 (1/21/2004 3:20:21 AM) comp.lang.forth Recently I gave a presentation introducing Forth to my colleagues. I put in a considerable amount of my own time to put together this presentation in a coherent and balanced way for people who have not before ... Krishna
kforth-fast431 (1/3/2004 4:03:17 AM) comp.lang.forth An experimental version of a faster kForth is available (presently for Linux users only). This new version, dubbed kforth-fast, provides significant speed improvement over the current kForth release (1.0.14-2;... Krishna
new scientific forth example234 (12/3/2003 4:04:19 AM) comp.lang.forth A new Forth program, pde1.4th, has been posted on the kForth Programming Examples Page: http://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth4.html (Find pde1.4th on this page). This is an example of solving a partial ... Krishna
Tiny text editor in Forth737 (7/5/2004 11:28:34 PM) comp.lang.forth Has anyone written a very small text editor in Forth? I am looking for an example of how much can be done in minimum memory. Either shortest source or smallest executable would be of interest, and I don't ... Guy
Generic matrix multiplication benchmark448 (7/12/2004 9:10:46 PM) comp.lang.forth Here is Mark Smotherman's matrix multiply code, ported from iForth to VFX, SwiftForth, gForth and Win32Forth. This is an attempt to write a generic, non-trivial floating-point benchmark. This benchmark is desi... mhx(2133)
Gforth extention request336 (8/11/2004 7:28:05 PM) comp.lang.forth We need the following five words in Gforth: key-s � � � � � ( �- c) � � \ Read a character over the serial port. key?-s � � � � �( �- flag) �\ Check serial port, is a char waiting? emit-s � � � � �( c -) � � ... albmit(91)
Reading text files in object oriented Forth1331 (8/19/2004 12:13:09 PM) comp.lang.forth I have a file of the following form: == header 1 header 2 header n boston, 2.23, nil, 112.123, 23.11221, nil, 0.0 chicago, 1.12, nil, 12234, nil, nil, nil ..... == How would a typical Forth program loo... chain_lube(430)
signal handling in Unix Forths1627 (8/31/2004 4:09:49 AM) comp.lang.forth I am designing an interface in kForth for signal handling --- I have a pressing need to run a task periodically (about every 50 ms) in the background and I can use the SIGALRM signal to accomplish this. Thus f... krishnamyneni(89)
forth to srec230 (9/7/2004 3:24:06 AM) comp.lang.forth Bit off topic, but may be you guys have had this problem before. We have some forth scripts as text files that are test harnesses that run on some legacy dy4 VME card (144). At the moment we are using hyperter... aek.muldoon(12)
Of what use do you make of Forth?192176 (9/26/2004 5:43:57 PM) comp.lang.forth Sometimes I ask a business acquaintance "What does your computer do for you besides the normal email, word processing, check writing and spread sheets? I would like to know the same about your use of Forth. D... japeters1(209)
String Manipulation in Forth3823 (10/1/2004 12:14:11 PM) comp.lang.forth Beginning to cover a lot of string handling in my Java class. And I'm always trying to relate what I learn to how Forth would accomplish it. If my stack contains the string "Apple for the teacher", and I want... richardsw(85)
FMOD in Forth3332 (10/5/2004 2:23:05 AM) comp.lang.forth After re-reading DPANS94, Floating Point Extensions, I find there is no equivalent of the C library function fmod() which returns the remainder (fractional part) of the result of dividing two fp numbers. Needi... krishnamyneni(89)
[Q] Abs addressing in gForth320 (10/8/2004 6:11:56 AM) comp.lang.forth Hi, I am running gForth under Windows 2000. Does anyone try to do some absolute addressing under such environment in gForth? Thanks. ... jessechao(17)