--- gforth/README	1996/12/06 20:23:03	1.20
+++ gforth/README	1998/12/20 23:17:54	1.27
@@ -7,16 +7,14 @@ 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
-the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
-alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1,
-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.
+systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the
+following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,
+sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2, i586-unknown-linux,
+hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using DJGPP 2.0,
+Windows 95 using CygWin32 beta 18, OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c.
 
-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
+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 prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
@@ -37,9 +35,10 @@ 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 <file>" from within
+        gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
+*.fi	Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
+*.fb	Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
 *.i	C include files
 *.ds	documenation source
 *TAGS	etags files
@@ -63,11 +62,20 @@ tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs db
 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:
 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