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Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals |
features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals |
facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs |
facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional |
traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is |
implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct |
indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU |
threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license |
General Public license (see COPYING). |
(see COPYING). |
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Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other |
Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to |
systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on |
port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested |
Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS). |
successfully on the following platforms: |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail |
alpha-dec-osf4.0d |
bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start |
alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu |
the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
alpha-unknown-linux-gnu |
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hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu |
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hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 |
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i386-unknown-freebsd5.0 |
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i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 |
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i686-pc-cygwin |
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i686-pc-linux-gnu |
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mips-dec-ultrix4.3 |
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mipsel-pc-linux-gnu |
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mips-sgi-irix6.5 |
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powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 |
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powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
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sparc-sun-solaris2.7 |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
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Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after |
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installing it). |
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You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors |
You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
or at |
and its mirrors or at |
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ |
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ |
or |
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ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
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This site will contains binary distributions of Gforth for some |
The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some |
popular platforms. |
popular platforms. |
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If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
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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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*.fs Forth stream source file |
*.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within |
*.fi Forth image files |
gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...") |
*.fb Forth blocks file |
*.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>") |
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*.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load") |
*.i C include files |
*.i C include files |
*.ds documenation source |
*.ds documenation source |
*TAGS etags files |
*TAGS etags files |
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Add-ons: |
Add-ons: |
code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs |
code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs |
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oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs |
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Utilities: |
Utilities: |
etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
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Games: |
Games: |
tt.fs sokoban.fs |
tt.fs sokoban.fs |
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Test programs: |
Test programs (for testing Forth systems): |
tester.fs coretest.fs |
test/*.fs |
checkans.fs wordsets.fs |
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Benchmarks: |
Benchmarks: |
bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs |
bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
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ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
compat/*.fs other.fs |
compat/*.fs other.fs |
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For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
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comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a |
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mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
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gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with: |
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subscribe GForth |
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as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug |
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reports through |
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https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth |
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(whether you post them or not). |
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- anton |
- anton |
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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This file is part of Gforth. |
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Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 |
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the |
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GNU General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. |