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This is the current state (alpha) of gforth. This is not a |
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature |
language. This represents the present state of the Gforth project |
enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is |
whose goal is the development of a standard implementation model for |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
ANS Forth. Gforth supports indirect threading on every machine |
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supported by GCC, and direct threading on several popular |
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architectures. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public |
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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 |
configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another |
gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems. To start |
system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have |
the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
problems). |
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To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren |
If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss |
in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
a word, just grep for it in *.fs. |
it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are |
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doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words, |
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the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. |
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If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password |
On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: |
(i.e., what you find in /etc/passwd). Tasks to be done can be found in |
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ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's |
*.fs Forth stream source file |
ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The |
*.fi Forth image files |
most important tasks IMO are the configuartion script, the missing ANS |
*.fb Forth blocks file |
Forth words (musts before the alpha release), speeding up the loading |
*.i C include files |
of startup.fs, the documentation, adding readline and the foreign |
*.ds documenation source |
language interface for C. |
*TAGS etags files |
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- anton |
- anton |
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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