Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.12
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
1.12 ! anton 14: bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
1.7 anton 15: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 16:
1.12 ! anton 17: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
! 18: or at
1.10 anton 19:
1.12 ! anton 20: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 21: or
1.12 ! anton 22: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 23:
1.12 ! anton 24: This site will contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
! 25: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 26:
1.7 anton 27: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
28: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
29: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
30: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
31: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 32:
33: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
34:
35: *.fs Forth stream source file
36: *.fi Forth image files
37: *.fb Forth blocks file
38: *.i C include files
39: *.ds documenation source
40: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 41:
1.11 anton 42: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
43: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
44: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
45:
46: Add-ons:
47: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
48:
49: Utilities:
50: etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
51:
52: Games:
53: tt.fs sokoban.fs
54:
55: Test programs:
56: tester.fs coretest.fs
57: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
58:
59: Benchmarks:
60: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
61:
62: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 ! anton 63: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.11 anton 64:
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1.6 anton 67: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
68: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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