--- gforth/README 2007/12/05 14:11:57 1.64 +++ gforth/README 2008/10/13 20:20:56 1.72 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -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 features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a @@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the following platforms: + i386-unknown-linux-gnu x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu + i386-apple-darwin9.4.0 + x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0 + ppc-apple-darwin9.4.0 + i686-pc-cygwin + r8c (gforth-ec) Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have @@ -35,8 +41,8 @@ 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, it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are -doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words, -the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. +doing. The most important task IMO is the foreign language interface +for C. On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: @@ -69,7 +75,7 @@ Benchmarks: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: -compat/*.fs other.fs +compat/*.fs For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a @@ -78,24 +84,23 @@ gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with subscribe GForth -as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug -reports through +as the first and only line within the message body. You can also +report bugs through these channels, or you can report them through our +bug database: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth -(whether you post them or not). - - anton anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html ----- -Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Gforth. Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License -as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 +as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, @@ -104,5 +109,4 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software -Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. +along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.