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Writing INIT's with Yerk/MOPS

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From: John Matthews
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:03
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I am new to Mac-Forth programming (Although I did do some a long time ago
on the Atari 800 system). I would be interested in using either Yerk or
MOPS to do the following:

1) Write quick little utility Apps to give to my co-workers. I would like
to be able to bring up windows, draw text and graphics into them, etc...
(The usual Mac U.I. stuff). Minimizing development time is more important
to me than minimizing memory usage or time efficiency. Good debugging
capability is particularly important.

2) Write Stand-alone code resources, particularly INIT's. Often I want to
patch some traps to keep track of some aspect of the O.S. I would like to
be able to create an INIT that, whenever it was entered, would dump me
into a Forth interpreter/debugger so I could incrementally add and test
the INIT's functionality. Once I finished (after many reboots), I would
like to create a small INIT that executes in the desired manner.
(Actually, the Forth interpreter + windowing code is likely to be small
enough that I wouldn't mind if it remained in the init, as long as users
of the INIT don't see it).
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