Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.28

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
1.28    ! anton      11: following platforms:
        !            12: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (libc5)
        !            13: i686-pc-linux-gnu (libc6)
        !            14: alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
        !            15: alpha-dec-osf4.0b
        !            16: mips-sgi-irix6.2
        !            17: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
        !            18: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
        !            19: sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
        !            20: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
        !            21: hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
1.22      anton      22: 
1.23      pazsan     23: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows
                     24: 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start
1.7       anton      25: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      26: 
1.12      anton      27: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
                     28: or at
1.10      anton      29: 
1.12      anton      30: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      31: or
1.12      anton      32: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      33: 
1.14      anton      34: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
                     35: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      36: 
1.7       anton      37: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     38: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     39: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     40: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     41: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      42: 
                     43: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     44: 
1.25      pazsan     45: *.fs   Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26      anton      46:         gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25      pazsan     47: *.fi   Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
                     48: *.fb   Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4       anton      49: *.i    C include files
                     50: *.ds   documenation source
                     51: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      52: 
1.11      anton      53: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     54: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     55: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     56: 
                     57: Add-ons:
                     58: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19      anton      59: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11      anton      60: 
                     61: Utilities:
1.19      anton      62: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      63: 
                     64: Games:
                     65: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     66: 
1.19      anton      67: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
                     68: tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
1.11      anton      69: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
                     70: 
                     71: Benchmarks:
1.24      anton      72: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11      anton      73: 
                     74: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      75: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27      pazsan     76: 
                     77: There's a mailing list for things around Gforth that aren't bugs
                     78: (suggestions, discussions, etc.). To post, send your mail to
                     79: GForth@ChaosSolutions.com. To subscribe, send a mail to
                     80: Mdaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with:
                     81: 
                     82: subscribe GForth
                     83: 
                     84: as the first and only line within the message body.
1.11      anton      85: 
                     86: 
1.1       anton      87: - anton
1.6       anton      88: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     89: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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