[Coco] FOCAL version 3 upload

Manny manney at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 05:58:37 EDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 16:48 -0600, Willard Goosey wrote:

> I have uploaded http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/os9/focal3.lzh a new release

> of OS-9 FOCAL.

>

> This has 2 new features:

> 1) If a focal file is named on the command line, focal foo.foc, the file

> will be loaded and executed automatically, like a more UNIXy language

> interpeter. The interpeter exits when the program ends.

>

>

> 2)New Command: LIBRARY EDIT runs a seperate editor on the program in

> memory. This editor is specified in the EDITOR variable in

> /dd/sys/env.file or, if that doesn't exit, the editor hard-coded in

> focal.h

>

> Use it, break it, fix it, tell me about it. Any and all feedback

> appreciated! Even flames about how weak and useless FOCAL is. ;-)

>

> Willard


Funny. I was just looking through some old stuff and found the last
version of FOCAL that I was studying the code and working on getting to
compile on my laptop. Now I have to load this up and let it sit hoping
it would compile itself. ;)

-M.



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