VWIN4TH.TXT (c) 1994, Jack J. Woehr PO Box 51 Golden CO 80402-0051
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Purpose:
	VWIN4TH is a Forth execution engine and a few Forth words coded
in Digitalk Smalltalk/V 3.0 [TM] for Windows/Windows NT [TMs]. It is merely
an example, but shows that an entire Forth system could be coded on top of
Smalltalk.

	VWIN4TH may be freely redistributed as long as the original
archive is distributed intact and for no charge other than a reasonable
cost for distribution media.

To Use:
	1) Unpack the archive into an appropriate directory below your
Smalltalk directory. Easiest is ./jaxvwin/vwin4th.

	2) The "load file" is VWIN4TH.ST. This "includes" the other
files in the directory, pathing them from the top Smalltalk directory.
Take a text editor like Alan Phillips's PFE and do a search-replace on
jaxvwin/vwin4th if you have unpacked the archive in a directory other
than one called jaxvwin/vwin4th.

	3) In the Smalltalk Disk Browser, open VWIN4TH.ST, use the Edit
menu to select all the text in the file, and File It In. A Forth Window
will open which allows you to type in text, highlight it with the mouse,
and choose Execute from the Forth menu. For some reason, however, you
don't see the results unless you un-highlight the text afterwards.

	All the words in the Forth system are found in the last portion
of VWIN4TH.ST. You can easily see how they are coded. You may add
others. You may fix my Forth engine so it is more like real Forth. Have
fun, and write if you get work.

INFORMATION

	For more information on the Forth programming language, contact:

		The Forth Interest Group
		PO Box 2154
		Oakland, CA 94621
		phone: 1-510-89-FORTH
		fax:   1-510-535-1295

	For more information on ANS Forth, email:

		ansforth-request@minerva.com

	For a good book on ANS Forth, buy:

		_Forth: The New Model_
		Jack Woehr, M&T Books, 1992
		ISBN: 1-55851-277-2

	For plenty of Forth to download free, call:

		The Realtime Control & Forth Board BBS (RCFB)
		1-303-278-0364

	For a free ANS Forth for Windows NT/i86, complete with MASM 6.11
	source:

		ftp.cygnus.com://pub/forth/jx4nt(xxx).zip (where xxx is
		the revision number)

	Jack Woehr
	Golden, Colorado
	May 15, 1994

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