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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Startup userconfig parsing 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 1997 20:23:14 +0930."
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 03:57:00 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> You read my mind.  It has some wacko arithmetic problems, and the guy
> must be allergic to ANSI C and Unix systems in general (can you
> _really_ write to the data segment under SunOS?), but it does
> seem to be the best bet.

I just looked at it too - it's pretty easy to rip all the I/O out.  In
fact, since it's PD, I've taken the liberty of simply ripping out any
#ifdefs I don't like and it's getting noticably smaller and more
manageable. :-) cforth needs an external dictionary file so I said
"bah" to that, BTW.  atl is self-contained by comparison and you could
lobotomize it pretty good and then rebuild just the parts you wanted.

I say beat the crap out of it. ;)

						Jordan