Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.46

1.46    ! anton       1: This snapshot is mainly intended as a Vmgen release.  The Gforth part
        !             2: has known bugs, and likely has portability problems (which Vmgen
        !             3: inherits, of course) on anything but 386 and Alpha platforms.  A
        !             4: full-blown and portable release will be released Real Soon Now:-).
        !             5: 
1.7       anton       6: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
1.8       anton       7: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
1.9       anton       8: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
1.43      anton       9: facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
                     10: implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
                     11: threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
                     12: (see COPYING).
1.8       anton      13: 
1.31      pazsan     14: Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
                     15: port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
                     16: successfully on the following platforms:
                     17: 
1.43      anton      18: i686-pc-linux-gnu
1.22      anton      19: 
1.37      anton      20: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
                     21: Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
                     22: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      23: 
1.42      anton      24: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
                     25: and its mirrors or at
1.10      anton      26: 
1.12      anton      27: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      28: or
1.12      anton      29: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      30: 
1.42      anton      31: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14      anton      32: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      33: 
1.7       anton      34: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     35: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     36: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     37: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     38: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      39: 
                     40: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     41: 
1.25      pazsan     42: *.fs   Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26      anton      43:         gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25      pazsan     44: *.fi   Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
                     45: *.fb   Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4       anton      46: *.i    C include files
                     47: *.ds   documenation source
                     48: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      49: 
1.11      anton      50: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     51: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     52: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     53: 
                     54: Add-ons:
                     55: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36      crook      56: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11      anton      57: 
                     58: Utilities:
1.19      anton      59: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      60: 
                     61: Games:
                     62: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     63: 
1.19      anton      64: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29      anton      65: test/*.fs
1.11      anton      66: 
                     67: Benchmarks:
1.24      anton      68: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11      anton      69: 
                     70: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      71: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27      pazsan     72: 
1.30      anton      73: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
                     74: comp.lang.forth.  If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41      anton      75: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org.  To subscribe, send a mail to
1.45      anton      76: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27      pazsan     77: 
                     78: subscribe GForth
                     79: 
1.30      anton      80: as the first and only line within the message body.  Send bug reports
1.38      pazsan     81: to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not).
1.11      anton      82: 
                     83: 
1.1       anton      84: - anton
1.6       anton      85: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     86: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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