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From: gil@jts.com (Gil Hauer )
Subject: Re: L&P Forth 83 and Disk Drives
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.122750.3851@jts.com>
Organization: Tech Noir Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <1991Apr23.180024.5226@jts.com> <1991Apr24.025257.5341@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 12:27:50 GMT

In article <1991Apr24.025257.5341@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jwoehr@isis.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
>In article <1991Apr23.180024.5226@jts.com> gil@jts.com (Gil Hauer ) writes:
>>
>>I recently download Laxen and Perry F83 from my local BBS and started
>>using it however I am have a small problem ... I can only access files
>>while I am on drive A. Does anybody know a work-around for this?
>
>	L&P F83 had no concept except the current dir and that it was
>metacompiled in the A: drive. 
>
>	To make VIEW work without the source in A:, you will have to
>re-metacompile.
>
>	To "just program", start F83 from the directory in which
>you wish to open files.

I tried this but still go errors when I tried to OPEN the block files.


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