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 This is the current state (alpha) of gforth. This is not a  Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
 distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature  language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
 enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is  features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
 distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).  facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs
   traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail us  indirect or direct threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU
 (anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at,paysan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) if  General Public license (see COPYING).
 you have problems.  
   Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
 To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren  systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
 system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss  Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS).
 a word, just grep for it in *.fs.  
   Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
 If you want to work on gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found in  gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems.  To start
 ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's  the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
 ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The  
 most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words (musts before  You can find new versions of Gforth at
 the alpha release), the documentation and the foreign language  
 interface for C.  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth
   or
   ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth
   
   This site will also contain binary distributions of Gforth for some
   popular platforms when it has proved stable.
   
   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,
   it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
   doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
   the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
   
 On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:  On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
   
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