Re: [gforth] Accessing serial port handshaking

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 10/12/2014 02:27 PM, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2014, 10:13:15 schrieb Jerry DeLisle:
> > > In Gforth git head, there's unix/serial.fs (not in 0.7.3).
> >
> > Oh Thank you Bernd, I did not realize.
> >
> > By the way, I do gfortran maintenance and do have an FSF assignment, so let
> > me know if there are some easier tasks that perhaps I can help with here.
>
> Looking through the documentation and complaining about which files apparently
> have something interesting in them and aren't documented (or where the
> documentation is to terse to understand) is probably the most important job
> right now (planning for the 0.8 release), and the one where somebody with not
> too much inside-knowledge is best at ;-).

I have some experience with Forth from the early 80's when I wrote my own 
interpreter.  It was hand assembled and very fast.  As I recall, I hashed the 
dictionary into about 16 threads and wrote the entire interpreter main loop in 
assembly. ... well, enough said there.

I have been bouncing around in the gForth manual today just trying to figure out 
some basic stuff.

It is difficult.  I am rusty with Forth for sure. I have done some documentation 
on gfortran and so I am a little familiar with the doc file formats.  Let me 
cogitate for a bit and develop a plan.  I am certain the documentation is the 
greatest need.

I will need guidance from developers about how things work or are to be used. 
Its use cases that are needed I think. Hope you don't mind me bugging you.

Jerry