Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.17

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
1.15      anton      11: the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, alpha-dec-osf3.2,
1.17    ! anton      12: mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1, sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2
        !            13: (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see INSTALL).
1.1       anton      14: 
1.7       anton      15: Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
1.12      anton      16: bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start
1.7       anton      17: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      18: 
1.12      anton      19: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
                     20: or at
1.10      anton      21: 
1.12      anton      22: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      23: or
1.12      anton      24: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      25: 
1.14      anton      26: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
                     27: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      28: 
1.7       anton      29: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     30: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     31: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     32: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     33: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      34: 
                     35: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     36: 
                     37: *.fs   Forth stream source file
                     38: *.fi   Forth image files
                     39: *.fb   Forth blocks file
                     40: *.i    C include files
                     41: *.ds   documenation source
                     42: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      43: 
1.11      anton      44: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     45: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     46: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     47: 
                     48: Add-ons:
                     49: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
                     50: 
                     51: Utilities:
                     52: etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
                     53: 
                     54: Games:
                     55: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     56: 
                     57: Test programs:
                     58: tester.fs coretest.fs
                     59: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
                     60: 
                     61: Benchmarks:
                     62: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
                     63: 
                     64: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      65: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.11      anton      66: 
                     67: 
1.1       anton      68: - anton
1.6       anton      69: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
                     70: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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