--- gforth/README 1995/12/15 01:54:08 1.10 +++ gforth/README 1997/03/27 15:23:58 1.22 @@ -8,20 +8,29 @@ General Public license (see COPYING). Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on -Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS). +the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, +sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2. -Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail -gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems. To start +i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux, +alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, +sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see +INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using +DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help +to finish compilation. + +Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and +OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). -You can find new versions of Gforth at +You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors +or at -http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth +http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ or -ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth +ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ -This site will also contain binary distributions of Gforth for some -popular platforms when it has proved stable. +The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some +popular platforms. If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, @@ -38,6 +47,31 @@ On popular request, here are the meaning *.ds documenation source *TAGS etags files +A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are +not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in +the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview: + +Add-ons: +code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs +oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs + +Utilities: +ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs + +Games: +tt.fs sokoban.fs + +Test programs (for testing Forth systems): +tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs +checkans.fs wordsets.fs + +Benchmarks: +bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs + +ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: +compat/*.fs other.fs + + - anton anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at -http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html \ No newline at end of file +http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html