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 This is the current state (alpha) of gforth. This is not a  Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
 distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature  language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
 enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is  features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a
   decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it has a comprehensive
   manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
   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).  distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
   
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail us  Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows and MacOS X
 (anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at,paysan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) if  and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This
 you have problems.  version has been tested successfully on the following platforms:
   
 To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren  alpha-unknown-linux-gnu 
 system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss   gcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release)
 a word, just grep for it in *.fs.   gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) 
    gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15) 
 If you want to work on gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found in   gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5) 
 ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's   gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
 ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The  armv5l-unknown-linux-gnu 
 most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words (musts before   gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15)
 the alpha release), the documentation and the foreign language   broken: gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
 interface for C.             <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31152>
   i686-pc-linux-gnu 
    gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) 
    gcc-3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) 
    gcc-3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13sarge1)
   ia64-hp-hpux11.23 
    gcc-4.1.1
    broken: gcc-3.4.3
   powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu 
    gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) 
    gcc-3.2.3 (Debian) 
    gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15) 
    gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-8) 
    gcc-4.0.3 20060128 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-8) 
    gcc-4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23) 
    gcc-4.3.2
   powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu 
    gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5) 
    gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
   sparc-sun-solaris2.10 
    gcc-3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath) 
    gcc-4.0.2
   x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 
    gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15) 
    gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5) 
    gcc-4.0.0
    gcc-4.0.4 20060904 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.3-7) 
    gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
    gcc-4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23) 
    gcc-4.2.0
    gcc-4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-3) 
    gcc-4.3.1
   i386-apple-darwin9.4.0
   x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0
   ppc-apple-darwin9.4.0
   i686-pc-cygwin
   gforth-ec: r8c, 4stack, misc, 8086
   
   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/
   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 task IMO is 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
   
   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 with:
   
   subscribe GForth
   
   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
   
 - 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
   -----
   Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007,2008 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 3
   of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
   
   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
   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, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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