Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.48

1.48    ! anton       1: This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability.  The main
        !             2: thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation.
1.46      anton       3: 
1.7       anton       4: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
1.8       anton       5: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
1.9       anton       6: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
1.43      anton       7: facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
                      8: implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
                      9: threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
                     10: (see COPYING).
1.8       anton      11: 
1.31      pazsan     12: Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
                     13: port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
                     14: successfully on the following platforms:
                     15: 
1.48    ! anton      16: alpha-dec-osf4.0d
        !            17: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
        !            18: hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
        !            19: hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
        !            20: i386-unknown-freebsd4.7
        !            21: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
1.43      anton      22: i686-pc-linux-gnu
1.48    ! anton      23: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
        !            24: mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
        !            25: mips-sgi-irix6.5
        !            26: powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
        !            27: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
1.22      anton      28: 
1.37      anton      29: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
1.47      anton      30: Windows 95, and OS/2.  To start the system, just say `gforth' (after
                     31: installing it).
1.10      anton      32: 
1.42      anton      33: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
                     34: and its mirrors or at
1.10      anton      35: 
1.12      anton      36: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      37: or
1.12      anton      38: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      39: 
1.42      anton      40: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14      anton      41: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      42: 
1.7       anton      43: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     44: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     45: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     46: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     47: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      48: 
                     49: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     50: 
1.25      pazsan     51: *.fs   Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26      anton      52:         gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25      pazsan     53: *.fi   Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
                     54: *.fb   Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4       anton      55: *.i    C include files
                     56: *.ds   documenation source
                     57: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      58: 
1.11      anton      59: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     60: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     61: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     62: 
                     63: Add-ons:
                     64: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36      crook      65: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11      anton      66: 
                     67: Utilities:
1.19      anton      68: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      69: 
                     70: Games:
                     71: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     72: 
1.19      anton      73: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29      anton      74: test/*.fs
1.11      anton      75: 
                     76: Benchmarks:
1.24      anton      77: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11      anton      78: 
                     79: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      80: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27      pazsan     81: 
1.30      anton      82: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
                     83: comp.lang.forth.  If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41      anton      84: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org.  To subscribe, send a mail to
1.45      anton      85: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27      pazsan     86: 
                     87: subscribe GForth
                     88: 
1.47      anton      89: as the first and only line within the message body.  Submit bug
                     90: reports through
1.11      anton      91: 
1.47      anton      92: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
                     93: 
                     94: (whether you post them or not).
1.11      anton      95: 
1.1       anton      96: - anton
1.6       anton      97: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     98: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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