From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 21:13:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA7116A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rrcs-mta-01.hrndva.rr.com (rrcs-mta-01.hrndva.rr.com [24.28.200.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622B843D3F for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:13:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ron@bouncebk.com) Received: from rrcs-fep-12.hrndva.rr.com (rrcs-fep-12b.hrndva.rr.com [172.28.200.150])j28LDdZL025301 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:13:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.0.0.128] (really [67.53.24.1]) by rrcs-fep-12.hrndva.rr.com with ESMTP id <20050308211337.INEJ6931.rrcs-fep-12.hrndva.rr.com@[10.0.0.128]> for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:13:37 -0500 Message-ID: <422E157D.6060404@bouncebk.com> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:13:33 -0600 From: McCy Ron User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <200503081554.j28FsVt15888@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200503081554.j28FsVt15888@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: beastie.4th language ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mccyron@kc.rr.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:13:42 -0000 Starting Forth by Leo Brodie is a good book on Forth. http://www.forth.org/ will offer other tutorialsl. Jerry McAllister wrote: >>Hi, >> >>My question might seem basic. Nevertheless I didn't find the answer on >>the net. Excuse me in case I did look seriously enough, which might >>afterall, be the case. >> >>The files under the /boot directory on FreeBSD : beastie.4th and the >>included ones screen.4th and frames.4th are obviously written in a >>certain scripting language. >> >>What is this language ? >>Can I get a turorial for this scripting language ? >>Or even a reference manual ? >> >> > >I believe the language is Forth. It is a fairly esotheric language >that is used because it has a very small footprint and is still >quite flexible. I don't know about tutorials, but I have seen >an occasional book on it. I had one and actually installed Forth >on a machine and tried to learn it once, several years ago but the >rewards/effort ratio got to me and I haven't gone back to it. > >////jerry > > > >>Any URL or suggestion would be appreciated. >> >>Thanks in advance. >> >>Michel >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >