[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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