Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.41
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:
1.40 anton 13: checking host system type... alpha-dec-osf4.0d
1.34 anton 14: checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
15: checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
16: checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
17: checking host system type... mips-dec-ultrix4.3
1.40 anton 18: checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
1.34 anton 19: checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
1.40 anton 20: checking host system type... sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
1.22 anton 21:
1.37 anton 22: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
23: Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
24: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 25:
1.38 pazsan 26: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors
1.12 anton 27: or at
1.10 anton 28:
1.12 anton 29: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 30: or
1.12 anton 31: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 32:
1.14 anton 33: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
34: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 35:
1.7 anton 36: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
37: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
38: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
39: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
40: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 41:
42: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
43:
1.25 pazsan 44: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 45: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 46: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
47: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 48: *.i C include files
49: *.ds documenation source
50: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 51:
1.11 anton 52: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
53: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
54: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
55:
56: Add-ons:
57: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36 crook 58: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11 anton 59:
60: Utilities:
1.19 anton 61: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 62:
63: Games:
64: tt.fs sokoban.fs
65:
1.19 anton 66: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29 anton 67: test/*.fs
1.11 anton 68:
69: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 70: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 71:
72: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 73: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 pazsan 74:
1.30 anton 75: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
76: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41 ! anton 77: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
! 78: MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27 pazsan 79:
80: subscribe GForth
81:
1.30 anton 82: as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports
1.38 pazsan 83: to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not).
1.11 anton 84:
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