wmb@sun.uucp (Mitch Bradley) (04/02/86)
The unsqueezer binary as received at this site was definitely not a TOS binary file. It was a section out of the middle of the "PD" Forth system, and has nothing at all to do with unsqueezing. Perhaps the wrong thing was posted by accident. A TOS executable file may be recognized by the magic number 0x601a in the first word of the file. By the way, the "PDFORTH" system is not exactly public domain. The version that was posted is an *very preliminary* version of a "Shareware" Forth system that I wrote. The shareware version will be out in the next couple of weeks. The San Leandro Computer Club will have the new version in their disk library. The posted PDFORTH version is ancient; it accidentally leaked out about a week after I first had it sort of working. The new version is much much better; it has been been beat on, debugged, and enhanced for 4 months instead of 1 week. The real name of the Forth system is Forthmacs, which is somewhat related to the fact that the new version includes MicroEmacs integrated into Forth. I'm not going to say any more because I don't want to get flamed for advertising on the net. Cheers, Mitch Bradley