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$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). ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.