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The truth about USQ and PDFORTH

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From: Mitch Bradley
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1986 22:21
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The unsqueezer binary as received at this site was definitely not a TOS
binary file.  It was a section out of the middle of the "PD" Forth
system, and has nothing at all to do with unsqueezing.  Perhaps the
wrong thing was posted by accident.

A TOS executable file may be recognized by the magic number 0x601a
in the first word of the file.

By the way, the "PDFORTH" system is not exactly public domain.  The version
that was posted is an *very preliminary* version of a "Shareware"
Forth system that I wrote.  The shareware version will be out in the
next couple of weeks.  The San Leandro Computer Club will have the
new version in their disk library.  The posted PDFORTH version is
ancient; it accidentally leaked out about a week after I first had it
sort of working.   The new version is much much better; it has been
been beat on, debugged, and enhanced for 4 months instead of 1 week.

The real name of the Forth system is Forthmacs, which is somewhat
related to the fact that the new version includes MicroEmacs integrated
into Forth.  I'm not going to say any more because I don't want to get
flamed for advertising on the net.

Cheers,
Mitch Bradley
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From: wmb@sun.uucp (Mitch Bradley)
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Subject: The truth about USQ and PDFORTH
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Date: Tue, 1-Apr-86 17:21:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  1 17:21:26 1986
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