Dear Paul,

    I want to thank you again for the information on Fifth. I had a
little trouble seeing the pdf files, but since you used just raw scans
for the pages I was able to go through them and increase the contrast
and crop out the background noise. My first attempt I did at 600dpi and
my Acrobat Reader came up with the sizes being a little less than 5.5 x
8.5 inches. I processed them again at 300dpi and the same thing happened
even though they were showing up as a little less than 8.5 x 11 inches
in the Acrobat Reader Properties. When I selected letter size paper
(even though that is what was showing) the size went to the larger size
instead of the smaller size. I did notice a couple of errors in the
Glossary section and corrected them.

    Page 17: > (greater than) from: arithmetically LESS than the TOPO
element; to arithmetically MORE than the TOP element. The bottom of the
page ends with ABORT;

    on page 18 the next item is ABORT, with a definition of
"abort-quote" so I added the QUOTE part to the abort. I tried to leave
enough space so the space is evident.

    I broke your pdf's down in Linux with xxxxx then brought them over
to Windows and used Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE to make the changes and
rebuilt the pdf's under Linux using tiffcp to combine the pages into one
.tif file, and then tiff2pdf to generate the final .pdf's. These pdf's
are a lot smaller since they are only 300dpi bitmapped pages.
FifthCovers.pdf is 751KB, and FifthTutor.pdf is 639KB. The file names
can be changed, but I thought I should make them similar so they won't
overwrite the original pdf's.

    My question is how can one view the object code that is generated? I
see that ENV! sets the local environment to the given module. The search
path starts at this module. Unlike F83-Forth, code is also generated in
this module. It would be nice to be able to verify the object code
generated.

    I was glad to see that currently supported CPU's are: 8088, 8086,
80186, 80286, 80386 (all flavors return 8088). And Math CPU's currently
supported are: 8087, 80287, and 80387 (all flavors return 8087). My idea
was to try to add support for Linux (Unix) so either OS would be able to
run Fifth natively.