--- gforth/README 2003/08/25 16:14:25 1.55 +++ gforth/README 2004/12/31 13:23:56 1.60 @@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ language. It works nicely with the Emacs features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with -newer techniques for portability and performance performance: its -inner innerpreter 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, 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: +newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner +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 GNU, BSD, and similar systems, 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: alpha-dec-osf4.0d alpha-unknown-linux-gnu @@ -29,8 +29,11 @@ successfully on the following platforms: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 sparc-unknown-linux-gnu -Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, -Windows 95, and OS/2, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have a binary package. +Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS +for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have +a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received +a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions. + To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ @@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addb anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html ----- -Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Gforth.