--- gforth/README 1996/01/07 17:22:06 1.11 +++ gforth/README 1998/12/23 22:44:07 1.28 @@ -7,21 +7,32 @@ indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is 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). +systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the +following platforms: +i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (libc5) +i686-pc-linux-gnu (libc6) +alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnulibc1 +alpha-dec-osf4.0b +mips-sgi-irix6.2 +mips-dec-ultrix4.3 +sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 +sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 +powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu +hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20 -Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail -gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems. To start +Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows +95, 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, @@ -31,9 +42,10 @@ the documentation and the foreign langua On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: -*.fs Forth stream source file -*.fi Forth image files -*.fb Forth blocks file +*.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include " from within + gforth, or start with "gforth ...") +*.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i ") +*.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use 1 load") *.i C include files *.ds documenation source *TAGS etags files @@ -44,24 +56,34 @@ the rest of the documentation, so here's Add-ons: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs +oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs Utilities: -etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs +ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs Games: tt.fs sokoban.fs -Test programs: -tester.fs coretest.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 +bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: -anslocal.fs other.fs +compat/*.fs other.fs + +There's a mailing list for things around Gforth that aren't bugs +(suggestions, discussions, etc.). To post, send your mail to +GForth@ChaosSolutions.com. To subscribe, send a mail to +Mdaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with: + +subscribe GForth + +as the first and only line within the message body. - 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