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by: gobli...@gmail.com - Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:38 UTC

Le mercredi 15 novembre 2023 à 14:05:07 UTC+1, Antoni Gual Via a écrit :
> By browsing sample code in the net, i have stumbled on some words that give and "Unknown word" error when i try the code in Gforth. I can't find them in any Standard. Could you give me some directions? Is there some general repository of nonstandard words?
> The words are:
>
> >CELL
> ?TERMINAL
> STRING,

: string,
dup c, mem, ; \ maybe

I guess >cell is about cell input anh ?terminal is testing current terminal
but noone but the word writer can answer you about non gforth words used

the source where you got those word should be documented descibing exactly each of them

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by: minforth - Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:37 UTC

Standard Forth offers the word EMIT? in the Facility Wordset
to return a flag for terminal (output) availability.
Similarly KEY? to test for pending terminal input.

pforth gforth or whatever-forth may offer affitional more
comfortable information, but non-portably.

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Re: UnGoogleable Forth words	gobli...@gmail.com
Re: UnGoogleable Forth words	minforth