Subject: Re: OF: show-modes (Re: Getting Started, again)
To: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
From: Monroe Williams <monroe@pobox.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/21/2000 11:21:48
on 3/21/00 11:07 AM, fission at fission@mb.sympatico.ca wrote:

> Okay, then, do a:
> 
> dev /chaos/control
> words
> 
> And see what words you can play with.
> 
> --fission

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0 > dev /chaos/control  ok
0 > words
close           restore         draw-logo      write           open
read-rectangle
fill-rectangle  draw-rectangle  get-colors     set-colors      color!
color@
control#
0 > 
--------

Looks pretty sparse.

Is there a good "Open Firmware Forth for Dummies" book somewhere?  I have
the ieee 1275-1994 spec and I've read the Apple tech notes on using OF,
but neither seems to be a very good intro to, for example, making sense
of the contents of the nvramrc.

-- monroe
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Monroe Williams                                         monroe@pobox.com