--- gforth/README 1997/03/31 19:15:59 1.23 +++ gforth/README 2001/05/01 14:35:00 1.44 @@ -1,30 +1,29 @@ 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 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 17, OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c. - -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). +facility, and it even has 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, Win95, 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: + +i686-pc-linux-gnu + +Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, +Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org 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 -or at +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/ -The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some +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 @@ -35,9 +34,10 @@ 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 @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ 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 +oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs Utilities: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs @@ -57,15 +57,24 @@ Games: tt.fs sokoban.fs Test programs (for testing Forth systems): -tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs -checkans.fs wordsets.fs +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 +MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.org with: + +subscribe GForth + +as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports +to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not). + - anton anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at