From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:37:20 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
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I'm proposing that that possibility  be considered.
Normally when programs are compiled in forth it's possible
to strip the kernel of forth used in that compilation down to only
commands used by that program.  That's possible in tcom in f-pc however
the slow word isn't implemented in f-pc so newui=off interface 
wouldn't be possible until that omission is ammended.
It may end up that code bloat experienced in m$dog might be removed
were forth used.  I wouldn't even try compilation of sources in forth
without reading Gear's Forth The Next Step though if for no other reason
than learning good documentation standards for forth programming
though.  That book was written for forth79 but information and code
transports to other forth systems rather easily.



jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>