Conference hydra::amiga_v1

323.0. "MVP-Forth and I/O." by CESARE::ZABOT (Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT) Fri Feb 13 1987 05:38

	Let me hope there is at least one out there that uses Forth.
	I've tried to buy J-Forth from Delta Research (CA) but they refused
	to sell it to me BECAUSE I'M LEAVING in Italy, where the pirates are
	still on the seas !!
	So I'm forced to use MVP-Forth from Fish disk ### which is totally 
	lacking documentation. For standard forth, no problems, but with 
	Amiga extensions it's another story. 
	I'd like to address the PRINTER ( Epson) to produce hardcopy of the 
	original screens. No success.
	What I've done so far is:

	   File0 from DF1:MVPAMIGA.SCR            this is my input file
	   File1 from PRT:			This is the output file

	then I try:

	   : Print   ( BufAdd  Lenght --- N.bytes sent )
		1 filehandle  write ;
	   " Test string" print 

	It seams to work. Even the N. Bytes sent is correct. But the printer
	does nothing. There is the usual activity on workbench disk when I do it
	the first time ( Access to system config and driver ) but that's all.

	HELP !!  HELP  !!    HEEEEeeeeeelpppppppp !!