Aucbvax.5221
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Tue Nov 17 08:56:39 1981
FORTH for the VAX and several queries
>From RUBENSTEIN@HARV-10 Tue Nov 17 08:14:41 1981
I have written a version of FORTH for the VAX and am willing to make it
available for FTP if anyone is interested. It tries to follow the
FORTH-79 standard as much as possible on a 32 bit machine with
one major exception: I am in love with the TO construct (i.e.
say VAR instead of VAR @ and 5 TO VAR instead of 5 VAR !) The
documentation is not quite ready yet, but if anyone's interested in
looking at it, let me know.
And now for the question: Can anyone tell me how to intercept the
traceback in order to put it into an error log file? I can get
the error code through standard LIB$ESTABLISH(HANDLER) but can't
figure out how to get traceback. I've tried various combinations
of logical names and mailboxes with no success. Anyone with any
helpful hints?
And another question: I have the EMACS binary that came on the
EUNICE tape. It apparently does NOT use TERMCAP,
because it treats my ambassador as a 24-line VT100 and does not
pad the clear-to-beginning-of-screen function as it should...
Has anyone adapted EMACS to run on other than a VT100? Do you
need the sources do do so? If so, where does one obtain them
(they aren't on either the EUNICE tape or the VMUNIX 4bsd tape
as far as I know). Also, the describe-function command
will not work, saying couldn't run program, or somesuch. What
am I missing?
And finally, I really hate opening up this can of worms, especially
after so many different queries already, but here goes: OK, so
I have EUNICE and the 4bsd tapes. Now what? I am willing to accept
the possibility that UNIX wins, but I have no idea how to go about
demonstrating it for myself. Can anyone point me to some intro-type
documentation? I gotta say that UNIX is \very/ unhelpful; I couldn't
even figure out how to type a file (other than cp file /dev/tty0 which
seems overly verbose). Someone once told me that "ls" is useful
for getting directories; this is about the extent of what I have been
able to figure out.
Thanx
Stew
P.S. I run a 750 under VMS in the Harvard Chem dept.
P.P.S. Just finished VMS internals course at DEC -- a lot of neat
and clever stuff in there! I'm willing to answer questions on such
if I can (dunno why I took the course -- my machine has been up
continuously for 11 weeks).
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