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Steve Graham

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May 24, 2012, 12:41:02 PM5/24/12
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Can someone point me to where I can obtain source for the Fifth
Programming language by Cliff Click and Paul Snow?

Thanks, Steve

Anton Ertl

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May 24, 2012, 12:51:51 PM5/24/12
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Steve Graham <jsgra...@yahoo.com> writes:
>Can someone point me to where I can obtain source for the Fifth
>Programming language by Cliff Click and Paul Snow?

I would ask Cliff Click. There is lots of stuff by him on the web,
maybe you can contact him through that.

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Steve Graham

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May 24, 2012, 1:09:08 PM5/24/12
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Anton Ertl wrote:
> Steve Graham<jsgra...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Can someone point me to where I can obtain source for the Fifth
>> Programming language by Cliff Click and Paul Snow?
>
> I would ask Cliff Click. There is lots of stuff by him on the web,
> maybe you can contact him through that.
>
> - anton

Good idea, Anton. Just did that.

Thanks, Steve

Steve Graham

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May 24, 2012, 6:53:58 PM5/24/12
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Anton Ertl wrote:
> Steve Graham<jsgra...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Can someone point me to where I can obtain source for the Fifth
>> Programming language by Cliff Click and Paul Snow?
>
> I would ask Cliff Click. There is lots of stuff by him on the web,
> maybe you can contact him through that.
>
> - anton

Asked him and he thinks it's only on long obsolete 5" floppies. Thought
I'd seen it on the 'Net somewhere.

Steve

Ed

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May 24, 2012, 8:51:00 PM5/24/12
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If you haven't found it already there's shareware version 2.7
at the Taygeta Forth archive.

ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Archive/ibm/fifth_sw.arc



Harry Vaderchi

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May 25, 2012, 2:26:35 AM5/25/12
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There's a fith mentioned here, but probably not the one you want:
http://esolangs.org/wiki/FIFTH
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Steve Graham

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May 25, 2012, 7:53:24 AM5/25/12
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Thanks, Ed. Doesn't seem to want to run on my Win7x64 box. Guess I'll
have to dig out my older PC.


Steve

Steve Graham

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May 25, 2012, 10:58:54 AM5/25/12
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Harry Vaderchi wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:51:00 +0100, Ed <inv...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
...

>>
>> If you haven't found it already there's shareware version 2.7
>> at the Taygeta Forth archive.
>>
>> ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Archive/ibm/fifth_sw.arc
>>
> There's a fith mentioned here, but probably not the one you want:
> http://esolangs.org/wiki/FIFTH
>>
>
>

Different one.

Ed

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May 26, 2012, 5:03:36 AM5/26/12
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Steve Graham wrote:
> ...
> Doesn't seem to want to run on my Win7x64 box. Guess I'll
> have to dig out my older PC.

DOSBox is worth a try for such situations
http://www.dosbox.com/



Steve Graham

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May 26, 2012, 9:17:20 PM5/26/12
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That works. Thanks, Ed. Steve

snow...@gmail.com

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May 21, 2013, 7:27:35 PM5/21/13
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I likely have the source on some old floppies, but I doubt they are readable. Stupid really, I should have made all the source open source, but open source was rather new in the early 90's.

Paul Snow

Albert van der Horst

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May 21, 2013, 11:01:57 PM5/21/13
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In article <1007a580-ef26-4de0...@googlegroups.com>,
I have still 3" and 5" drives on some machines, contact me if you need help.

In my experience old 3" hd are very often unreadable, the situation with
5" dd is much better.

Time is running out ...

>
>Paul Snow

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