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Subject: Alan Pratt's C-Forth
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Date: 2 Oct 89 21:37:24 GMT
Reply-To: jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu ()
Organization: Dale Computer Corp.
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I am using Alan Pratt's C-Forth under SCO XENIX 386 2.3.1 and have the
following problem:

In the editor, when I edit an existing block, mark it for updating,
and flush it out to disk, exit forth, restart forth and look at the
block file, the original block is unchanged and the block which results
from my modifications appears at the end of the block file. 

Is this something which is supposed to occur or is it a bug? If it is
supposed to happen, it is quite annoying for the obvious reasons. I've
been looking through the source code some, but as I am still in the
learning stages of Forth, I haven't come up with anything yet. Has
anyone else come across this problem and fixed it?

The version of C-Forth I am using is from volume 1 of the
comp.unix.sources archive on uunet. Is there a newer version I should
get from elsewhere? 

Advance thanx from a novice Forther,


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