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Sun Jan 7 17:22:06 1996 UTC (28 years, 2 months ago) by anton
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added more.fs for people with old terminals.
WORDS and SEE now now respect the terminal size.
a lot of reordering in the Makefile, approaching the GNU standards.
factored NAME>STRING out of many words.
use AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST test in configure.in.
removed emitcounter (it was not used anyway).
SYSTEM now unpreps and repreps the terminal.
fixed byg in prims2x.fs.
added NEEDS, ?CSP, !CSP.
rewrote ALIAS?.

Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs
traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is
indirect or direct threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU
General Public license (see COPYING).

Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS).

Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems.  To start
the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).

You can find new versions of Gforth at

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth
or
ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth

This site will also contain binary distributions of Gforth for some
popular platforms when it has proved stable.

If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.

On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:

*.fs	Forth stream source file
*.fi	Forth image files
*.fb	Forth blocks file
*.i	C include files
*.ds	documenation source
*TAGS	etags files

A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:

Add-ons:
code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs

Utilities:
etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs

Games:
tt.fs sokoban.fs

Test programs:
tester.fs coretest.fs
checkans.fs wordsets.fs

Benchmarks:
bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs

ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
anslocal.fs other.fs


- anton
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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