Annotation of gforth/NEWS, revision 1.4

1.4     ! anton       1: User-visible changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1
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        !             3: Bug fixes
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1.1       anton       5: User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0
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1.3       anton       7: Portability and Installation:
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1.1       anton       9: Support architectures with buggy long longs (alpha-dec-osf).
1.3       anton      10: Better support for DOS and other non-Unix systems.
1.1       anton      11: Size changes through the command line are passed to the image (and
                     12: saved with savesystem); the preamble specifies an interpreter and is
                     13: propagated by save-system.
1.3       anton      14: 
                     15: Tools:
                     16: 
                     17: Improved etags support.
                     18: more.fs allows output paging.
                     19: Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features.
                     20: Added tiny multitasker (tasker.fs).
                     21: Added two alternatives for object-oriented programming: oof.fs, objects.fs.
                     22: Added ans-report.fs (reports which words are used from which wordset).
                     23: 
                     24: New words:
                     25: 
                     26: Changed POPEN and PCLOSE to OPEN-PIPE and CLOSE-PIPE.
                     27: Added FORM, ROWS, and COLS.
                     28: added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR.
                     29: Added TABLEs (case-sensitive wordlists).
                     30: added POSTPONE,.
                     31: Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation
                     32: semantics (INTERPRET/COMPILE:); state-smart words were generally
                     33: rewritten to use that mechanism.
                     34: 
                     35: Changes to existing words:
                     36: 
                     37: EMIT and TYPE now work through file words (and are redirectable).
1.1       anton      38: HEADER now stores the compilation wordlist in the header and REVEAL
                     39: reveals into that wordlist.
1.3       anton      40: changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in
                     41: $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
1.1       anton      42: ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
1.3       anton      43: 

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