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The -i option no longer works in lina 5.4.0.
This is due to trailing spaces in the file name, a cleverness in behalf of the deb archives.

Work around:
To fix the executable lina do

l```
ina
BLOCK-FILE $@ -TRAILING BLOCK-FILE $!
WANT SAVE-SYSTEM
"lina" SAVE-SYSTEM
BYE

I don't know if I have overlooked something, but I am not able to use the starting options for wina, except my working directory is the folder where all of the wina files are.

I downloaded the prebuild release of wina64-5.5.0 and unpacked it. I actually have a .tools folder in my path; so I installed wina64 like descriped in the READMEwina.txt with wina64 -i ~.tools\wina64.exe ~.tools\forth.lab %COMSPEC%.
When I run wina from any other folder then wina's home directory, I get an error code 8:
tools\wina64.exe" -n ? ciforth ERROR # 8 // as full error message

Is this normal behavior? Is there a solution to fix this and use every option everwhere?
I don't want to have to jump to wina home directory and use an absolue path to a file I want to compile.

Thanks for any help!

With respect to release 5.3.0

The BAG wordset uses the new DATA word instead of CREATE.
This is however still combined with DOES>.

Work arounds:

1. Remove the word DOES> from screen 90 in the source library forth.lab.
   or
2. Redefine BAG immediately after loading the bag wordset with WANT BAG
   : BAG DATA HERE CELL+ , CELLS ALLOT ;

Error compiling ciforth lina

I downloaded ciforth lina from https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth

Unzip. Then:

ciforth-master$ make all
cat lina32.cfg VERSION nasm.m4 ci86.gnr | m4 -G ciforth.m4 - > /tmp/ciforthscratch
m4:postlude.m4:148: cannot open `namescooked.m4': No such file or directory
Makefile:273: recipe for target 'ci86.lina32.asm' failed
make: *** [ci86.lina32.asm] Error 1

As per now 20017 sep 10 , a make of an archive fails after "make clean" because sortworddoc.frt script requires that lina and forth.lab exist. So those targets must be made beforehand, separately.

This is all fascinating. I stumbled on this while looking at https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciasdis/blob/master/README.assembler

ciasdis. I found this through a post on stack overflow where you commented on an answer to a question where ciasdis was the recommended tool.

Given the age of some of the software, a refresher on a newer debian/ubuntu system would be fantastic, walking through the premise for the build, installing any dependencies (tex or others), and how to verify the binary against test data. It's well documented, but I ran into issues building on Ubuntu 22.04.

Additional area that will be of value:

• porting strategy for a new platform theoretical or real (M series mac, risc-v linux , etc..)
• strategies as you describe in your web page
• how you apply this for your ai research