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mina ciforth -- ISO Forth Language And Environment
DESCRIPTION
Forth is a tried and proven language for evolutionary ("check as you
go") programming, ideal for rapid prototyping and experiments with
hardware.
mina is the 16-bit MS-DOS version of ciforth (common Intel Forth), an
interpreter environment, scripter and compiler for Forth.
It supplies the CORE wordset of the ISO Forth standard, plus some
essentials, i.a. file access and exceptions. Its power is multiplied
by an extensive source library, that adds i.a. a decompiler and
an integrated 86 assembler.
OPTIONS
mina without options starts an interactive system.
Options are implemented by a simple mechanism through
the source library, and hence are configurable.
The most important ones are
/H
Print help, i.e. the option summary, version etc.
Then exit.
/E
Load the electives , i.e. tools for interactive development.
Then start the interpreter.
/C FILE.FRT
Compile FILE.FRT to the binary FILE.EXE
Then exit.
/A, /R
Start the interpreter with the word REQUIRE available.
DOCUMENTATION
mina comes with html, ps and pdf documentation.
Version 4.0.6 has about 9500 pdf-pages per Mbyte of executable code.
It documents all language features implemented and
has a tutorial.
mina.html contains only the reference documentation, for easy
click through.
SOURCE
The source for the compiler and the library are part of the
package. ( mina.asm and forth.lab ).
DIAGNOSTICS
Uncaught exceptions will show the error number. Positive error numbers
are ciforth-specific and explained in the documentation.
Negative error numbers are OS-specific.
A mnemonic message is fetched from the library file and displayed,
if possible.
The combination MS-DOS plus Forth is crash-happy though.
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2000-2004 by Albert van der Horst
http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ciforth.html
ciforth is made available under the GNU Public License:
quality, but NO warranty.
