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 This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability.  The main  
 thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation.  
   
 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, backtraces, a
 facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional  decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
 implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct  manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
 threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license  newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
 (see COPYING).  interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can
   also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter.  Gforth is
   distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
   
   Gforth runs under Unix, MS Windows, MacOS X, 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:
   
 Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to   alpha-dec-osf4.0d
 port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested   alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
 successfully on the following platforms:   alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
    hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
    hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00
    hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
    i386-unknown-freebsd5.1
    i686-pc-cygwin
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    mips-sgi-irix6.5
    mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
    powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
    powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
    sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
    sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
   
 alpha-dec-osf4.0d  Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
 alpha-unknown-linux-gnu  for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
 hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu  a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file.  If you received
 hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11  a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
 i386-unknown-freebsd4.7  
 i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1  
 i686-pc-linux-gnu  
 mips-dec-ultrix4.3  
 mipsel-pc-linux-gnu  
 mips-sgi-irix6.5  
 powerpc-apple-darwin5.4  
 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu  
   
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,  To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
 Windows 95, and OS/2.  To start the system, just say `gforth' (after  
 installing it).  
   
 You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/  You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
 and its mirrors or at  and its mirrors or at
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