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 This is the current state (alpha) of gforth. This is not a  This snapshot is mainly intended as a Vmgen release.  The Gforth part
 distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature  has known bugs, and likely has portability problems (which Vmgen
 enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is  inherits, of course) on anything but 386 and Alpha platforms.  A
 distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).  full-blown and portable release will be released Real Soon Now:-).
   
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail us  Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
 (anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at,paysan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) if  language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
 you have problems.  features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
   facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
 To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren  implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
 system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss  threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
 a word, just grep for it in *.fs.  (see COPYING).
   
 If you want to work on gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found in  Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
 ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's  port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
 ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The  successfully on the following platforms:
 most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words (musts before  
 the alpha release), the documentation and the foreign language  i686-pc-linux-gnu
 interface for C.  
   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 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 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,
   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.
   
 On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:  On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
   
 *.fs    Forth stream source file  *.fs    Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
 *.fi    Forth image files          gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
 *.fb    Forth blocks file  *.fi    Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
   *.fb    Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
 *.i     C include files  *.i     C include files
 *.ds    documenation source  *.ds    documenation source
 *TAGS   etags files  *TAGS   etags files
   
   A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
   not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
   the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
   
   Add-ons:
   code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
   oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
   
   Utilities:
   ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
   
   Games:
   tt.fs sokoban.fs
   
   Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
   test/*.fs
   
   Benchmarks:
   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
 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at  anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html  
   
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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