Re: GEOS file format, assembly, etc.

Billy Tanksley <tanksley@fallbrook.csusm.edu>

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From: Billy Tanksley <tanksley@fallbrook.csusm.edu>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 1994, Peter Dudley wrote:

> Read the VM files chapter.  The file structure is not a structure so much
> as a set of indirections and handle tables, with the data stored throughout.
> You'll see that it's very much a nontrivial task creating a GEOS VM file
> from outside GEOS.

I got an answer here-- the info is in the file Internal/geosStr.def .  It
certainly will not be trivial, but on the other hand, I will only do it
once, and then my Forth language will be able to do it itself.

> Pete.
> 
Great thanks to all who helped and are helping me.

-Billy
GeoForth is a little closer and still freeware.