1: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
2: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
3: features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a
4: decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
5: manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
6: newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
7: interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can
8: also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is
9: distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
10:
11: Gforth runs under Unix, MS Windows, MacOS X, OS/2, and DOS and should
12: not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version
13: has been tested successfully on the following platforms:
14:
15: alpha-dec-osf4.0d
16: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
17: alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
18: hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
19: hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00
20: hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
21: i386-unknown-freebsd5.1
22: i686-pc-cygwin
23: i686-pc-linux-gnu
24: mips-sgi-irix6.5
25: mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
26: powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
27: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
28: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
29: sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
30:
31: Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
32: for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
33: a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received
34: a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
35:
36: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
37:
38: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
39: and its mirrors or at
40:
41: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
42: or
43: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
44:
45: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
46: popular platforms.
47:
48: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
49: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
50: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
51: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
52: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
53:
54: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
55:
56: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
57: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
58: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
59: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
60: *.i C include files
61: *.ds documenation source
62: *TAGS etags files
63:
64: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
65: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
66: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
67:
68: Add-ons:
69: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
70: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
71:
72: Utilities:
73: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
74:
75: Games:
76: tt.fs sokoban.fs
77:
78: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
79: test/*.fs
80:
81: Benchmarks:
82: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
83:
84: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
85: compat/*.fs other.fs
86:
87: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
88: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
89: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
90: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
91:
92: subscribe GForth
93:
94: as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug
95: reports through
96:
97: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
98:
99: (whether you post them or not).
100:
101: - anton
102: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
103: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
104: -----
105: Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
106:
107: This file is part of Gforth.
108:
109: Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
110: modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
111: as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
112: of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
113:
114: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
115: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
116: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
117: GNU General Public License for more details.
118:
119: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
120: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
121: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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