Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.31
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:
1.31 ! pazsan 9: Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
! 10: port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
! 11: successfully on the following platforms:
! 12:
1.28 anton 13: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (libc5)
1.31 ! pazsan 14: i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (libc5)
1.28 anton 15: i686-pc-linux-gnu (libc6)
16: alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
17: alpha-dec-osf4.0b
18: mips-sgi-irix6.2
19: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
20: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
21: sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
22: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
23: hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
1.31 ! pazsan 24: i386-pc-cygwin32 (CygWin32 b18, Win95)
! 25: i386-pc-djgpp (DGJPP 2.0, MS-DOS 7.0 under Win95)
! 26: i386-pc-os2 (OS/2 3.0, EMX 0.9c)
1.22 anton 27:
1.23 pazsan 28: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows
29: 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
1.7 anton 30: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 31:
1.12 anton 32: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
33: or at
1.10 anton 34:
1.12 anton 35: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 36: or
1.12 anton 37: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 38:
1.14 anton 39: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
40: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 41:
1.7 anton 42: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
43: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
44: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
45: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
46: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 47:
48: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
49:
1.25 pazsan 50: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 51: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 52: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
53: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 54: *.i C include files
55: *.ds documenation source
56: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 57:
1.11 anton 58: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
59: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
60: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
61:
62: Add-ons:
63: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19 anton 64: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11 anton 65:
66: Utilities:
1.19 anton 67: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 68:
69: Games:
70: tt.fs sokoban.fs
71:
1.19 anton 72: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29 anton 73: test/*.fs
1.11 anton 74:
75: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 76: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 77:
78: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 79: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 pazsan 80:
1.30 anton 81: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
82: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
83: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.com. To subscribe, send a mail to
1.27 pazsan 84: Mdaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with:
85:
86: subscribe GForth
87:
1.30 anton 88: as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports
89: to bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu (whether you post them or not).
1.11 anton 90:
91:
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