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: 
1.1       anton      92: - anton
1.6       anton      93: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     94: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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