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: 
                     65: 
1.1       anton      66: - anton
1.6       anton      67: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
                     68: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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