--- gforth/README 1996/08/21 14:58:37 1.13 +++ gforth/README 2004/12/31 13:23:56 1.60 @@ -1,28 +1,50 @@ Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice -features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals -facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs -traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is -indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU -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). - -Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail -bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start -the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). +features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a +decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a +manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with +newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner +interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can +also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is +distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). + +Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X, +OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems +supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the +following platforms: + + alpha-dec-osf4.0d + alpha-unknown-linux-gnu + alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu + hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu + hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00 + hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 + i386-unknown-freebsd5.1 + i686-pc-cygwin + i686-pc-linux-gnu + mips-sgi-irix6.5 + mipsel-pc-linux-gnu + powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 + powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu + sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 + sparc-unknown-linux-gnu + +Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS +for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have +a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received +a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions. -You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors -or at +To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). + +You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ +and its mirrors or at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ or ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ -This site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some popular -platforms. +The latter site also 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, @@ -32,9 +54,10 @@ 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 @@ -45,24 +68,55 @@ 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 blocked.fb tasker.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 -checkans.fs wordsets.fs +Test programs (for testing Forth systems): +test/*.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: compat/*.fs other.fs +For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup +comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a +mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to +gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with: + +subscribe GForth + +as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug +reports through + +https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth + +(whether you post them or not). - 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 +----- +Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +This file is part of Gforth. + +Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License +as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 +of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.