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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> There are two separate tasks, each with their own interesting
> requirements.  The easiest way to understand them is probably to look
> at what the current perl scripts are doing.  The first transforms the
> Forth softwords files into a large string array, stripping all the
> unnecessary bits; that's /sys/boot/ficl/softwords/softcore.pl.

Yeah, I forgot two bits. The perl script also does cat <<EOF at the
beginning and at the end of the generation, to insert some code, and
all the lines for rule number 3 are enclosed in quotes. Well, run
the perl script, it should be obvious.

> 
> Run it as per the Makefile to see the output it produces; inferring the
> rules from that should be pretty straightforward.

Actually, reading the perl script should also be quite
straightforward. It is commented, and one of the cleanests perl
scripts I ever saw.

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