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Aucbvax.5221 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax 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(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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