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 and a powerful locals
4: facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs
5: traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is
6: indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU
7: General Public license (see COPYING).
8:
9: Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
11: the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, alpha-dec-osf3.2,
12: mips-dec-ultrix4.3.
13:
14: Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
15: bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
16: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
17:
18: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
19: or at
20:
21: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
22: or
23: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
24:
25: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
26: popular platforms.
27:
28: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
29: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
30: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
31: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
32: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
33:
34: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
35:
36: *.fs Forth stream source file
37: *.fi Forth image files
38: *.fb Forth blocks file
39: *.i C include files
40: *.ds documenation source
41: *TAGS etags files
42:
43: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
44: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
45: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
46:
47: Add-ons:
48: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
49:
50: Utilities:
51: etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
52:
53: Games:
54: tt.fs sokoban.fs
55:
56: Test programs:
57: tester.fs coretest.fs
58: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
59:
60: Benchmarks:
61: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
62:
63: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
64: compat/*.fs other.fs
65:
66:
67: - anton
68: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
69: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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