Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.11

1.7       anton       1: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
1.8       anton       2: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
1.9       anton       3: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
                      4: facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs
                      5: traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is
                      6: indirect or direct threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU
                      7: General Public license (see COPYING).
1.8       anton       8: 
                      9: Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
1.10      anton      10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
                     11: Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS).
1.1       anton      12: 
1.7       anton      13: Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
                     14: gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems.  To start
                     15: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      16: 
                     17: You can find new versions of Gforth at
                     18: 
                     19: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth
                     20: or
                     21: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth
                     22: 
                     23: This site will also contain binary distributions of Gforth for some
                     24: popular platforms when it has proved stable.
1.1       anton      25: 
1.7       anton      26: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     27: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     28: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     29: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     30: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      31: 
                     32: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     33: 
                     34: *.fs   Forth stream source file
                     35: *.fi   Forth image files
                     36: *.fb   Forth blocks file
                     37: *.i    C include files
                     38: *.ds   documenation source
                     39: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      40: 
1.11    ! anton      41: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
        !            42: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
        !            43: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
        !            44: 
        !            45: Add-ons:
        !            46: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
        !            47: 
        !            48: Utilities:
        !            49: etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
        !            50: 
        !            51: Games:
        !            52: tt.fs sokoban.fs
        !            53: 
        !            54: Test programs:
        !            55: tester.fs coretest.fs
        !            56: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
        !            57: 
        !            58: Benchmarks:
        !            59: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
        !            60: 
        !            61: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
        !            62: anslocal.fs other.fs
        !            63: 
        !            64: 
1.1       anton      65: - anton
1.6       anton      66: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
                     67: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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