--- gforth/test/ttester.fs	2007/08/22 06:34:52	1.3
+++ gforth/test/ttester.fs	2007/08/28 19:26:11	1.5
@@ -7,26 +7,12 @@
 \ VERSION 1.1
 
 \ for the FNEARLY= stuff:
-\ from ftester.fs written by David N. Williams, based on the
+\ from ftester.fs written by David N. Williams, based on the idea of
 \ approximate equality in Dirk Zoller's float.4th
-
-\ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-\ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
-\ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-\ version 2.1 of the License, or at your option any later version.
-
-\ This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-\ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-\ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-\ Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
-\ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-\ License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
-\ Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-\ MA 02111-1307 USA.
+\ public domain
 
 \ for the rest:
-\ revised by Anton Ertl 2007-08-12, 2007-08-19
+\ revised by Anton Ertl 2007-08-12, 2007-08-19, 2007-08-28
 \ public domain
 
 \ The original has the following shortcomings:
@@ -44,7 +30,9 @@
 \ http://www.forth200x.org/tests/ttester.fs
 
 \ tester.fs is intended to be a drop-in replacement of the original.
-\ ttester.fs is a version that uses T{ and }T instead of { and }.
+
+\ ttester.fs is a version that uses T{ and }T instead of { and } and
+\ keeps the BASE as it was before loading ttester.fs
 
 \ In spirit of the original, I have strived to avoid any potential
 \ non-portabilities and stayed as much within the CORE words as
@@ -53,11 +41,10 @@
 
 \ There are a few things to be noted:
 
-\ - Following the despicable practice of the original, this version
-\ sets the base to HEX for everything that gets loaded later.
-\ Floating-point input is ambiguous when the base is not decimal, so
-\ you have to set it to decimal yourself when you want to deal with
-\ decimal numbers.
+\ - Loading ttester.fs does not change BASE.  Loading tester.fs
+\ changes BASE to HEX (like the original tester).  Floating-point
+\ input is ambiguous when the base is not decimal, so you have to set
+\ it to decimal yourself when you want to deal with decimal numbers.
 
 \ - For FP it is often useful to use approximate equality for checking
 \ the results.  You can turn on approximate matching with SET-NEAR
@@ -72,6 +59,7 @@
 \ system or if you need only exact matching, you can use the plain }T
 \ instead.
 
+BASE @
 HEX
 
 \ SET THE FOLLOWING FLAG TO TRUE FOR MORE VERBOSE OUTPUT; THIS MAY
@@ -112,8 +100,7 @@ HAS-FLOATING [IF]
     \ SET THE FOLLOWING TO THE RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE TOLERANCES YOU
     \ WANT FOR APPROXIMATE FLOAT EQUALITY, TO BE USED WITH F~ IN
     \ FNEARLY=.  KEEP THE SIGNS, BECAUSE F~ NEEDS THEM.
-    FVARIABLE FSENSITIVITY DECIMAL 1E-12 HEX FSENSITIVITY F!
-    : REL-NEAR FSENSITIVITY ;
+    FVARIABLE REL-NEAR DECIMAL 1E-12 HEX REL-NEAR F!
     FVARIABLE ABS-NEAR    DECIMAL 0E HEX ABS-NEAR F!
 
     \ WHEN EXACT? IS TRUE, }F USES FEXACTLY=, OTHERWISE FNEARLY=.
@@ -339,3 +326,5 @@ HAS-FLOATING-STACK [IF]
    IF DUP >R TYPE CR R> >IN !
    ELSE >IN ! DROP
    THEN ;
+
+BASE !
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