Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M

From	Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M
Date	2012-08-01 21:08 -0400
Organization	Hooves Across the Water, Manes Across The Sky
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On 2012-07-13, smp <stephen.m.pereira.sr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone recall how one is to go about transferring their Forth 
> screens to another Forth disk?  Am I being dense?  Suppose I create a 
> bunch of screens that do a bunch of different things, but then the 
> disk is getting filled up so I want to save this one and move on to 
> the next disk.  I can certainly format another disk and copy 
> FIGFORTH.COM onto it within the CP/M operating system, but then I 
> would be back to the beginning, so to speak.  How, then, would I copy 
> some of these screens from my original disk onto the new disk I am 
> trying to create?  What am I missing here?
>
I played around a little with Fig-Forth on Atari 8-bit computers. As I recall,
the word that physically read and wrote the disk, I think it was called
R/W, was coded so that block numbers above a certain value would access
the second disk drive.


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FIG-Forth on CP/M smp <stephen.m.pereira.sr@gmail.com> - 2012-07-09 08:49 -0700
  Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-07-09 08:01 -1000
  Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-07-09 13:18 -0500
  Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-07-10 02:27 -0400
    Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-10 18:40 +0000
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-07-10 16:22 -0500
        Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-11 01:08 +0000
  Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-07-10 16:38 +1000
    Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M vandys@vsta.org - 2012-07-10 16:43 +0000
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-07-11 14:10 +1000
        Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M vandys@vsta.org - 2012-07-11 15:56 +0000
    Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M smp <stephen.m.pereira.sr@gmail.com> - 2012-07-13 05:25 -0700
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2012-07-13 18:10 -0500
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-07-14 14:34 +1000
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-14 11:13 +0000
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M smp <stephen.m.pereira.sr@gmail.com> - 2012-07-15 05:14 -0700
        Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-07-15 08:31 -1000
          Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M smp <stephen.m.pereira.sr@gmail.com> - 2012-07-15 12:22 -0700
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2012-08-01 21:08 -0400
  Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M smp <stephen.m.pereira.sr@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 04:41 -0700
    Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2012-07-10 20:29 +0000
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-10 21:20 +0000
      Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-07-11 14:10 +1000
        Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M smp <stephen.m.pereira.sr@gmail.com> - 2012-07-11 04:15 -0700

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