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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, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to |
Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to |
port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested |
port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested |
successfully on the following platforms: |
successfully on the following platforms: |
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checking host system type... alpha-dec-osf4.0d |
i686-pc-linux-gnu |
checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu |
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checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 |
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checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu |
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checking host system type... mips-dec-ultrix4.3 |
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checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
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checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 |
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checking host system type... sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems. |
Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems. |
To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
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You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp.gnu.org 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 |
or |
ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
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The latter site 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 |