Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.45
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
1.43 anton 4: facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
5: implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
6: threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
7: (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:
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1.43 anton 13: i686-pc-linux-gnu
1.22 anton 14:
1.37 anton 15: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
16: Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
17: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 18:
1.42 anton 19: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
20: and its mirrors or at
1.10 anton 21:
1.12 anton 22: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 23: or
1.12 anton 24: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 25:
1.42 anton 26: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14 anton 27: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 28:
1.7 anton 29: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
30: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
31: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
32: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
33: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 34:
35: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
36:
1.25 pazsan 37: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 38: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 39: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
40: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 41: *.i C include files
42: *.ds documenation source
43: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 44:
1.11 anton 45: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
46: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
47: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
48:
49: Add-ons:
50: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36 crook 51: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11 anton 52:
53: Utilities:
1.19 anton 54: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 55:
56: Games:
57: tt.fs sokoban.fs
58:
1.19 anton 59: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29 anton 60: test/*.fs
1.11 anton 61:
62: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 63: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 64:
65: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 66: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 pazsan 67:
1.30 anton 68: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
69: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41 anton 70: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
1.45 ! anton 71: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27 pazsan 72:
73: subscribe GForth
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1.30 anton 75: as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports
1.38 pazsan 76: to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not).
1.11 anton 77:
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