Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.22
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
1.22 ! anton 11: the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,
! 12: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2.
! 13:
! 14: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
1.21 anton 15: alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4,
1.18 pazsan 16: sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see
1.20 pazsan 17: INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using
18: DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help
19: to finish compilation.
1.1 anton 20:
1.20 pazsan 21: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and
22: OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
1.7 anton 23: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 24:
1.12 anton 25: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
26: or at
1.10 anton 27:
1.12 anton 28: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 29: or
1.12 anton 30: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 31:
1.14 anton 32: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
33: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 34:
1.7 anton 35: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
36: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
37: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
38: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
39: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 40:
41: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
42:
43: *.fs Forth stream source file
44: *.fi Forth image files
45: *.fb Forth blocks file
46: *.i C include files
47: *.ds documenation source
48: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 49:
1.11 anton 50: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
51: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
52: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
53:
54: Add-ons:
55: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19 anton 56: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11 anton 57:
58: Utilities:
1.19 anton 59: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 60:
61: Games:
62: tt.fs sokoban.fs
63:
1.19 anton 64: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
65: tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
1.11 anton 66: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
67:
68: Benchmarks:
69: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
70:
71: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 72: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.11 anton 73:
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