(71B) FORTH questions

[rprosperi]

I am not them, but hopefully these answers will help:

FTHUTILA is a TEXT file, with source code for the assembler portion
FTHUTILF is a TEXT file with source code for the FORTH portion
FTHUTILC is a (compiled) FORTH file, which can be used as-is (this is the result of assembling FTHUTILA and compiling FTHUTILF into an empty FORTHRAM file) by renaming to FORTHRAM and copying to the 71B's main RAM.

All 3 of these files are in the LIF volume I uploaded.

If you prefer to build it yourself, copy the FTHUTILA and FTHUTILF text files to the 71B and follow the short steps in section 21.1 of the manual. Note that if you have already added FORTH words to your dictionary, these words will be added AFTER your existing words, and if they happen to have the same name, your words will not be available, the new word with the same name will be used.

Creating this (or using the provided FTHUTILC file (renamed to FORTHRAM)) will let you use the TIME word Sylvain mentioned above.

Note: Forth itself, and especially the assembler, are fairly slow, but the more RAM you configure your 71B with, the faster assembling and compiling will be.

Good luck