1: This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability. The main
2: thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation.
3:
4: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
5: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
6: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
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).
11:
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:
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
22: i686-pc-linux-gnu
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
28:
29: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
30: Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after
31: installing it).
32:
33: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
34: and its mirrors or at
35:
36: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
37: or
38: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
39:
40: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
41: popular platforms.
42:
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.
48:
49: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
50:
51: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
52: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
53: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
54: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
55: *.i C include files
56: *.ds documenation source
57: *TAGS etags files
58:
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
65: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
66:
67: Utilities:
68: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
69:
70: Games:
71: tt.fs sokoban.fs
72:
73: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
74: test/*.fs
75:
76: Benchmarks:
77: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
78:
79: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
80: compat/*.fs other.fs
81:
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
84: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
85: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
86:
87: subscribe GForth
88:
89: as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug
90: reports through
91:
92: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
93:
94: (whether you post them or not).
95:
96: - anton
97: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
98: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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