--- gforth/README 1996/08/21 14:58:37 1.13 +++ gforth/README 2002/08/22 20:07:33 1.46 @@ -1,28 +1,35 @@ +This snapshot is mainly intended as a Vmgen release. The Gforth part +has known bugs, and likely has portability problems (which Vmgen +inherits, of course) on anything but 386 and Alpha platforms. A +full-blown and portable release will be released Real Soon Now:-). + 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 -Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS). - -Read INSTALL for installation instructions. 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/ -This site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some popular -platforms. +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 in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, @@ -32,9 +39,10 @@ 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 @@ -45,24 +53,34 @@ 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 blocked.fb tasker.fs Utilities: -etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs +ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs Games: tt.fs sokoban.fs -Test programs: -tester.fs coretest.fs -checkans.fs wordsets.fs +Test programs (for testing Forth systems): +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 +gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@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 -http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html \ No newline at end of file +http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html