Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.27
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
1.23 pazsan 10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the
11: following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,
12: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2, i586-unknown-linux,
13: hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using DJGPP 2.0,
1.27 ! pazsan 14: Windows 95 using CygWin32 beta 18, OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c.
1.22 anton 15:
1.23 pazsan 16: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows
17: 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
1.7 anton 18: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 19:
1.12 anton 20: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
21: or at
1.10 anton 22:
1.12 anton 23: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 24: or
1.12 anton 25: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 26:
1.14 anton 27: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
28: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 29:
1.7 anton 30: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
31: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
32: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
33: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
34: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 35:
36: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
37:
1.25 pazsan 38: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 39: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 40: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
41: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 42: *.i C include files
43: *.ds documenation source
44: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 45:
1.11 anton 46: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
47: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
48: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
49:
50: Add-ons:
51: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19 anton 52: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11 anton 53:
54: Utilities:
1.19 anton 55: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 56:
57: Games:
58: tt.fs sokoban.fs
59:
1.19 anton 60: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
61: tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
1.11 anton 62: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
63:
64: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 65: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 66:
67: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 68: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 ! pazsan 69:
! 70: There's a mailing list for things around Gforth that aren't bugs
! 71: (suggestions, discussions, etc.). To post, send your mail to
! 72: GForth@ChaosSolutions.com. To subscribe, send a mail to
! 73: Mdaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with:
! 74:
! 75: subscribe GForth
! 76:
! 77: as the first and only line within the message body.
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