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 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 a powerful locals facility, and even has (the  features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
 beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs traditional implementation  facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs
 techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct threaded.  traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is
 Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license (see  indirect or direct threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU
 COPYING).  General Public license (see COPYING).
   
 Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other  Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
 systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested on Linux (for  systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
 Intel), SunOS (SPARC), Ultrix (MIPS) before release.  the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
   alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1,
   sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see
   INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using
   DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help
   to finish compilation.
   
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail  Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and
 gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems.  To start  OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start
 the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).  the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
   
   You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu 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 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  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,  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  it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
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 *.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
   
   Utilities:
   ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
   
   Games:
   tt.fs sokoban.fs
   
   Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
   tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
   checkans.fs wordsets.fs
   
   Benchmarks:
   bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
   
   ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
   compat/*.fs other.fs
   
   
 - 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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