Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.51

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
1.51    ! anton      17: alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
1.48      anton      18: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
                     19: hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
                     20: hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
1.51    ! anton      21: i386-unknown-freebsd5.0
1.48      anton      22: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
1.51    ! anton      23: i686-pc-cygwin
1.43      anton      24: i686-pc-linux-gnu
1.48      anton      25: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
                     26: mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
                     27: mips-sgi-irix6.5
                     28: powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
                     29: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
1.51    ! anton      30: sparc-sun-solaris2.7
1.22      anton      31: 
1.37      anton      32: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
1.47      anton      33: Windows 95, and OS/2.  To start the system, just say `gforth' (after
                     34: installing it).
1.10      anton      35: 
1.42      anton      36: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
                     37: and its mirrors or at
1.10      anton      38: 
1.12      anton      39: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      40: or
1.12      anton      41: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      42: 
1.42      anton      43: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14      anton      44: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      45: 
1.7       anton      46: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     47: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     48: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     49: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     50: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      51: 
                     52: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     53: 
1.25      pazsan     54: *.fs   Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26      anton      55:         gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25      pazsan     56: *.fi   Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
                     57: *.fb   Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4       anton      58: *.i    C include files
                     59: *.ds   documenation source
                     60: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      61: 
1.11      anton      62: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     63: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     64: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     65: 
                     66: Add-ons:
                     67: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36      crook      68: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11      anton      69: 
                     70: Utilities:
1.19      anton      71: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      72: 
                     73: Games:
                     74: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     75: 
1.19      anton      76: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29      anton      77: test/*.fs
1.11      anton      78: 
                     79: Benchmarks:
1.24      anton      80: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11      anton      81: 
                     82: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      83: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27      pazsan     84: 
1.30      anton      85: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
                     86: comp.lang.forth.  If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41      anton      87: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org.  To subscribe, send a mail to
1.45      anton      88: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27      pazsan     89: 
                     90: subscribe GForth
                     91: 
1.47      anton      92: as the first and only line within the message body.  Submit bug
                     93: reports through
1.11      anton      94: 
1.47      anton      95: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
                     96: 
                     97: (whether you post them or not).
1.11      anton      98: 
1.1       anton      99: - anton
1.6       anton     100: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan    101: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
1.49      anton     102: -----
1.50      anton     103: Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1.49      anton     104: 
                    105: This file is part of Gforth.
                    106: 
                    107: Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
                    108: modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
                    109: as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
                    110: of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
                    111: 
                    112: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
                    113: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
                    114: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
                    115: GNU General Public License for more details.
                    116: 
                    117: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
                    118: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
                    119: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

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