Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.20

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
1.19      anton      10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
1.18      pazsan     11: the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
                     12: alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1,
                     13: sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see
1.20    ! pazsan     14: INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using
        !            15: DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help
        !            16: to finish compilation.
1.1       anton      17: 
1.20    ! pazsan     18: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and
        !            19: OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start
1.7       anton      20: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      21: 
1.12      anton      22: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
                     23: or at
1.10      anton      24: 
1.12      anton      25: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      26: or
1.12      anton      27: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      28: 
1.14      anton      29: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
                     30: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      31: 
1.7       anton      32: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     33: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     34: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     35: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     36: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      37: 
                     38: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     39: 
                     40: *.fs   Forth stream source file
                     41: *.fi   Forth image files
                     42: *.fb   Forth blocks file
                     43: *.i    C include files
                     44: *.ds   documenation source
                     45: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      46: 
1.11      anton      47: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     48: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     49: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     50: 
                     51: Add-ons:
                     52: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19      anton      53: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11      anton      54: 
                     55: Utilities:
1.19      anton      56: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      57: 
                     58: Games:
                     59: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     60: 
1.19      anton      61: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
                     62: tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
1.11      anton      63: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
                     64: 
                     65: Benchmarks:
                     66: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
                     67: 
                     68: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      69: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.11      anton      70: 
                     71: 
1.1       anton      72: - anton
1.6       anton      73: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     74: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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