F-PC, anyone?

[dark...@ny.frontiercomm.net]

Is anyone else using F-PC? I can't believe such a capable package is
available for free and no one seems to be taking advantage of it.

And each of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit
older and a little bit slower.

Net-Tamer V 1.09 - Test Drive

[JDavidBoyd]

I cobbled up an app to talk to a Siemens Motor Drive Controller through a
serial port several years back with FPC, but haven't even looked at it in
years.

I do agree though, it is a cool system.

[Mike Beach]

In message <5qfqc6$odn$3...@news.ispn.net>

dark...@ny.frontiercomm.net writes:
> Is anyone else using F-PC? I can't believe such a capable package is
> available for free and no one seems to be taking advantage of it.

Certainly; though most references in the ng necessarily refer to more
recent Forths, I have adopted F-PC (with a few changes and bug-fixes)
for daily use, having just about got my head around it. (well, bits
of it!) I have wondered whether there might be interest in sharing
such revisions, and to that end have gathered such ng references as I
have seen. I have not found any (active) Internet forum on the subject.

Mike Beach
mjbk...@zetnet.co.uk

[William H. Stewart]

In article 199707151...@zetnet.co.uk,

I'm not doing too much with F-PC but have heavy coding using Tom's
TCOM package. Have added the capability to display the stack, add a
3rd stack, and to create debugging breakpoints inline in the code.
If any of this active is of interest please advise.

[Wolfgang Allinger]

On 15 Jul 97 in article <5qfqc6$odn$3...@news.ispn.net>
<dark...@ny.frontiercomm.net> wrote:

>Is anyone else using F-PC? I can't believe such a capable package
>is available for free and no one seems to be taking advantage of it.

I'm using F-PC and TCOM for controlling industrial test equipment and
machinery. I made the electronics and Software for testing machine for
Mercedes-Benz. The gearbox for the power stearing of trucks is measured in
the 1痠 (1 micro meter, 1 micron) resolution ( that's 1 millionth of a
meter, i.e one inch has roughly 25 million micro meter), the the program
calculates what size the mounting rings for the ball bearing is to be
selected, though the gear box has a clearance of 15 microns after it is
assembled. I hope my english is good enough, to explain what it does.
There are about 20 of these electronic gauges (LVDT), 4 infrared
temperature sensors, because a 1 degree difference of the parts will
result in 3 microns difference of the clearance! Grrr...

Another set of 5 Testing equipments for the adjustment and specification
verification test for electronic/pneumatic regulators is under
development. I just came back from tests with the 1st prototype. I works
pretty well, the customer increased the order to 10 equipments.

These equipment I programmed under F-PCak, its a beefed up special version
of Toms F-PC with a lot of enhancements for european languages,
keyboards... This version is released by Arndt Klingelnberg, just moved
from germany to belgique, however he still is a german :-)

Many thanks to Tom and Arndt for their work.
I try to make my living on F-PC and F-PCak

However, there are some bugs in it, but because it's free I got much
better support for it, as I ever got from LMI for their 'professional'
products, which are handled very 'unprofessional'. If I was complaining on
LMI, I got no help but very arrogant letters...! If I complained on Tom's
and Arndt's bugs, I got immediate and good help! And sometimes I could
help myself, because I have the complete sources, so I can guarantee
support for the next ten(?) years. All I learned from LMI, that they don't
care on my and european customers needs. LMI is only interested in
collecting money, not in giving support!

I also made some improvements to the Multitasker in F-PC. I have no a
pretty good 1msec real time interrupt service TSR and also a TSR for a ADC
pacer. It's called FINETIME and ADCPACER and it's written in F-PC and is
target compiled TSR interrupt handler, which modifies the DOS system
clock.... With FINETIME and ADCPACER I can shell out from F-PC to DOS
without loosing my measurements... I give away FINETIME and ADCPACER as
freeware to anybody who is interested in it, so I can pay a little back to
the forth community.

so keep on forthing

bye bye by Wolfgang from germany

who loves cats, his wife, Forth, microcontrollers and his Porsche 968
( yes I like it, driving with top speed above 150mph is really cool :-)

--
FORTHing @ work Cheap ...pick any
Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Allinger Fast Good ... two of them
Germany
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[Christopher Slee]

Mornin' All,

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:11:57 +0100, Mike Beach <mjbk...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:#! rnews 1168
MB> In message <5qfqc6$odn$3...@news.ispn.net>

MB> dark...@ny.frontiercomm.net writes:
> Is anyone else using F-PC? I can't believe such a capable package is
> available for free and no one seems to be taking advantage of it.

MB> Certainly; though most references in the ng necessarily refer to more
MB> recent Forths, I have adopted F-PC (with a few changes and bug-fixes)
MB> for daily use, having just about got my head around it. (well, bits
MB> of it!) I have wondered whether there might be interest in sharing
MB> such revisions, and to that end have gathered such ng references as I
MB> have seen. I have not found any (active) Internet forum on the subject.

Hi

I used F-PC constantly, until I recently removed all things which would
distract me from writing. It is the most accessable Forth I have yet
encountered. For day-to-day tasks and probvlem solving, I cannot imagine
anything better. Yes. I'd love to swap revisions and stuff.

I have not done much recompiling of F-PC as it did juts fine the way it
was. I only hard-wired in the defaults for my setup. However, I have
written some SEQs that I found very useful -- database and structures,
Mode X and 3-D graphics vocabularies, etc -- and would gladly swap.

Send me mail. This may be the only way to have safe *.SEQs <g>

Regards,

Chris Slee

___________________________________________________________________________
Chris Slee sle...@ozemail.com.au
No wife, no horse, no moustache!
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... Reality-ometer [\........] Hmmph! Thought so.

[Wolfgang Allinger]

On 25 Jul 97 in article <5rb5hg$v...@proxy5.proxy.ozemail.net>
<sle...@ozemail.com.au> (Christopher Slee) wrote:

GOOD EVENING AUSTRALIA!
Hallo Cristopher,

>Mornin' All,
^^^ I like that, because it's also my footstep :-)

So I always can enter the discussion, if I'm willing to do so.

>> Is anyone else using F-PC? I can't believe such a capable package

I use i, as I mentioned it before...

>I have not done much recompiling of F-PC as it did juts fine the way
>it was. I only hard-wired in the defaults for my setup. However, I
>have written some SEQs that I found very useful -- database and
>structures, Mode X and 3-D graphics vocabularies, etc -- and would
>gladly swap.

I have also improved the Grafic of Bob Gunton (Australia) but never could
come in contact to him, to tell him about the improvements :-(

I also wrote some extensions for RealTime! 1ms interrupt driven timebases
for F-PC with and without Multitasker, improved the multitasker...
interface for LOG files of Operator actions... so I can use it for real-
time process control...

I'm interested in database interfaces, especially DB II ...

I'm also interested in a Z-Modem interface for Forth/F-PC

> No wife, no horse, no moustache!

Hope you have beer ( default option for australians and germans )
than you are a lucky guy!

Bye bye by Wolfgang
a wife, a cat, a Porsche, some Forth and lot's of beer! so I'm lucky!