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Line 3 distribution for the general public, sin
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Line 3 distribution for the general public, sin
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enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is |
enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
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You will probably find a Linux binary included in the package and the |
Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail us if you have |
configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another |
problems. |
system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have |
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problems). |
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To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren |
To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren |
system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss |
system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss |
a word, just grep for it in *.fs. |
a word, just grep for it in *.fs. |
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If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password |
If you want to work on gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
(i.e., what you find in /etc/passwd). Tasks to be done can be found in |
in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's |
it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are |
ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The |
doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words |
most important tasks IMO are the configuartion script, the missing ANS |
(musts before the alpha release), the documentation and the foreign |
Forth words (musts before the alpha release), speeding up the loading |
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of startup.fs, the documentation, adding readline and the foreign |
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language interface for C. |
language interface for C. |
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On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: |
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*.fs Forth stream source file |
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*.fi Forth image files |
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*.fb Forth blocks file |
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*.i C include files |
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*.ds documenation source |
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*TAGS etags files |
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- anton |
- anton |