• ANN: 4tH version 3.64.1 has just been released!

    From Hans Bezemer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 14 06:42:37 2022
    You can download it at http://thebeez.home.xs4all.nl/4tH/download.html
    Or: https://sourceforge.net/projects/forth-4th/files/4th-3.64.1/

    Functionality
    * The words PROTO: and :PROTO were added.
    * REFILL now supports CR-delimited files.
    * Radixsort LSB and Binary Quicksort were added to the sort algorithms.
    * A functional equivalent of the scanf() C-function was added.
    * sprintf.4th now supports unsigned, octal and hexadecimal formats.
    * A lighter version of the FPOUT library, sfpout.4th, was added.
    * An interface to Wget and cURL was added.
    * Another dynamic array library, more suited for sequential access, was added.

    Bugfixes
    * A bug in comp_4th.c caused 4tH to allocate too many symboltable entries when using IS or TO.
    * A bug in comp_4th.c caused 4tH to complain about empty strings when there was more than one space between CHAR, [CHAR], [DEFINED] or [UNDEFINED] and the string or name following it.
    * A bug in 4th.c, mon.4th and editor.4th caused a crash when CRTL-D was pressed.
    * A bug in 4tsh.c caused a memory leak when too many tasks were added.
    * Several Zen FP routines were upgraded to 64-bit accuracy.

    Features:
    * Comes with an extensive library, featuring hundreds
    of words covering ANS-Forth compatibility, user defined stacks,
    lists, XLS, LaTeX, RTF and HTML files, floating point,
    databases, etc. etc.
    * Almost 95% of the CORE wordset is supported.
    * Comes with a nice, 600+ page manual.
    * Over 300 examples and 500+ libraries.
    * Turbo C and GCC like frontends.
    * Native packages for MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Coherent, Linux,
    including the Ben Nanonote and the Raspberry Pi.

    Hans Bezemer

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