--- gforth/prim	1999/12/03 18:24:22	1.41
+++ gforth/prim	2000/05/16 09:51:21	1.45
@@ -496,13 +496,10 @@ if (n<0)
 else if (n>0)
   n = 1;
 :
- rot 2dup - >r min swap -text dup
- IF    rdrop
- ELSE  drop r@ 0>
-       IF    rdrop -1
-       ELSE  r> 1 and
-       THEN
- THEN ;
+ rot 2dup swap - >r min swap -text dup
+ IF  rdrop  ELSE  drop r> sgn  THEN ;
+: sgn ( n -- -1/0/1 )
+ dup 0= IF EXIT THEN  0< 2* 1+ ;
 
 -text		c_addr1 u c_addr2 -- n	new	dash_text
 n = memcmp(c_addr1, c_addr2, u);
@@ -514,8 +511,8 @@ else if (n>0)
  swap bounds
  ?DO  dup c@ I c@ = WHILE  1+  LOOP  drop 0
  ELSE  c@ I c@ - unloop  THEN  -text-flag ;
-: -text-flag ( n -- -1/0/1 )
- dup 0< IF  drop -1  ELSE  0>  1 and  THEN  ;
+: sgn ( n -- -1/0/1 )
+ dup 0= IF EXIT THEN  0< 2* 1+ ;
 
 toupper	c1 -- c2	gforth
 ""If @i{c1} is a lower-case character (in the current locale), @i{c2}
@@ -1499,6 +1496,8 @@ wretval = pclose((FILE *)wfileid);
 wior = IOR(wretval==-1);
 
 time&date	-- nsec nmin nhour nday nmonth nyear	facility-ext	time_and_date
+""Report the current time of day. Seconds, minutes and hours are numbered from 0.
+Months are numbered from 1.""
 struct timeval time1;
 struct timezone zone1;
 struct tm *ltime;
@@ -1512,6 +1511,7 @@ nmin  =ltime->tm_min;
 nsec  =ltime->tm_sec;
 
 ms	n --	facility-ext
+""Wait at least @i{n} milli-second.""
 struct timeval timeout;
 timeout.tv_sec=n/1000;
 timeout.tv_usec=1000*(n%1000);
@@ -1636,21 +1636,26 @@ if (wior)
   clearerr((FILE *)wfileid);
 
 read-line	c_addr u1 wfileid -- u2 flag wior	file	read_line
-/*
+#if 1
 Cell c;
 flag=-1;
 for(u2=0; u2<u1; u2++)
 {
-   *c_addr++ = (Char)(c = getc((FILE *)wfileid));
-   if(c=='\n') break;
-   if(c==EOF)
-     {
+   c = getc((FILE *)wfileid);
+   if (c=='\n') break;
+   if (c=='\r') {
+     if ((c = getc((FILE *)wfileid))!='\n')
+       ungetc(c,(FILE *)wfileid);
+     break;
+   }
+   if (c==EOF) {
 	flag=FLAG(u2!=0);
 	break;
      }
+   c_addr[u2] = (Char)c;
 }
 wior=FILEIO(ferror((FILE *)wfileid));
-*/
+#else
 if ((flag=FLAG(!feof((FILE *)wfileid) &&
 	       fgets(c_addr,u1+1,(FILE *)wfileid) != NULL))) {
   wior=FILEIO(ferror((FILE *)wfileid)!=0); /* !! ior? */
@@ -1663,6 +1668,7 @@ else {
   wior=0;
   u2=0;
 }
+#endif
 
 \+
 
@@ -1869,6 +1875,12 @@ and represents the floating-point number
 Float r;
 char *number=cstr(c_addr, u, 1);
 char *endconv;
+int sign = 0;
+if(number[0]=='-') {
+   sign = 1;
+   number++;
+   u--;
+}
 while(isspace((unsigned)(number[--u])) && u>0);
 switch(number[u])
 {
@@ -1884,7 +1896,7 @@ if((flag=FLAG(!(Cell)*endconv)))
 {
    IF_FTOS(fp[0] = FTOS);
    fp += -1;
-   FTOS = r;
+   FTOS = sign ? -r : r;
 }
 else if(*endconv=='d' || *endconv=='D')
 {
@@ -1894,7 +1906,7 @@ else if(*endconv=='d' || *endconv=='D')
      {
 	IF_FTOS(fp[0] = FTOS);
 	fp += -1;
-	FTOS = r;
+	FTOS = sign ? -r : r;
      }
 }
 
@@ -2191,3 +2203,14 @@ fp=FP;
 IF_TOS(TOS=sp[0];)
 IF_FTOS(FTOS=fp[0]);
 
+newline	-- c_addr u	gforth
+""String containing the newline sequence of the host OS""
+char newline[] = {
+#ifdef unix
+'\n'
+#else
+'\r','\n'
+#endif
+};
+c_addr=newline;
+u=sizeof(newline);