info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/31/84)
Date: 27 May 1984 03:00:55-EDT From: uw-beaver!Walter.Smith@CMU-CS-SPICE Subject: FORTH & finder renaming To: utcsrgv!peterr To: microsof!infomac I found the "Going FORTH" tutorial to be an adequate introduction. It doesn't explain the more bizarre and esoteric features of FORTH, but I was able to use them after a few hours of hacking around. I plan to find a reasonable reference book to learn about the REALLY strange parts, but that was probably the original intention anyway. Perhaps having an HP calculator helps (FORTH is RPN-based). As for the accidental renaming problem, the name IS selected; that's why it's in reverse video. All they have to do is make it so that selecting an icon doesn't select the filename.