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1.3     ! anton       6: .TH GForth 1 "December 24, 1998" \" -*- nroff -*-
1.1       anton       7: .SH NAME
1.3     ! anton       8: gforth, gforthmi \- a fast and portable Forth system
1.1       anton       9: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     10: 
                     11: \fCgforth\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options]
                     12: 
1.3     ! anton      13: \fCgforthmi\fR \fIfilename\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options]
1.1       anton      14: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     15: 
                     16: \fBGForth\fR is a fast and portable implementation of the Forth
                     17: programming language. For details read the manual.
                     18: .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
                     19: 
                     20: \fCGFORTHPATH\fR contains the search path for source and image files.
                     21: 
                     22: \fCGFORTHD\fR gives the gforth executable used by
1.3     ! anton      23: \fCgforthmi\fR for creating the base images. It should be a
1.1       anton      24: double indirect threaded system.  Default: \fCgforth-ditc\fR.
                     25: 
                     26: \fCGFORTH\fR gives the gforth executable used by
1.3     ! anton      27: \fCgforthmi\fR for computing the relocatable image from the
1.1       anton      28: base images. Default: \fCgforth\fR.
                     29: 
                     30: .SH EXAMPLES
                     31: 
                     32: \fCgforth\fR
                     33: 
                     34: starts the system and goes into interactive mode.
                     35: 
                     36: \fCgforth file1 file2 \-e bye\fR
                     37: 
                     38: loads and interprets the files \fCfile1\fR and \fCfile2\fR, then
                     39: exits.
                     40: 
1.3     ! anton      41: \fCgforthmi asm.fi \-m 1M asm.fs\fR
1.1       anton      42: 
                     43: creates an image \fCasm.fi\fR that has a default dictionary size of
                     44: 1MB and has the file \fCasm.fs\fR loaded.
                     45: 
                     46: .SH OPTIONS
                     47: 
1.2       anton      48: .BI "\-\-help"
                     49: .TQ "\-h"
                     50: Lists the available options, including some not described here (see
                     51: also the manual).
                     52: .TP
1.1       anton      53: .BI "\-\-image\-file " "file"
                     54: .TQ "\-i " "file"
                     55: Loads the Forth image
                     56: .I file
                     57: instead of the default \fCgforth.fi\fR.
                     58: .TP
                     59: .BI "\-\-path " "path"
                     60: .TQ "\-p " "path"
                     61: Uses
                     62: .I path
                     63: for searching the image file and Forth source code
                     64: files instead of the default in the environment variable
                     65: \fCGFORTHPATH\fR
                     66: or the path specified at installation time (typically
                     67: \fC/usr/local/lib/gforth:.\fR. A path is given as a 
                     68: .BR : -separated
                     69: list.
                     70: .TP
                     71: .BI "\-\-dictionary\-size " "size"
                     72: .TQ "\-m " "size"
                     73: Allocate
                     74: .I size
                     75: space for the Forth dictionary space instead of
                     76: using the default specified in the image (typically 256K). The
                     77: .I size
                     78: specification consists of an integer and a unit (e.g., \fC4M\fR).
                     79: The unit can be one of \fCb\fR (bytes),
                     80: \fCe\fR (element size, in this case Cells),
                     81: \fCk\fR (kilobytes), and
                     82: \fCM\fR (Megabytes). If no unit is specified,
                     83: \fCe\fR is used.
                     84: .TP
                     85: .BI "\-\-data\-stack\-size " "size"
                     86: .TQ "\-d " "size"
                     87: Allocate
                     88: .I size
                     89: space for the data stack instead of using the
                     90: default specified in the image (typically 16K).
                     91: .TP
                     92: .BI "\-\-return\-stack\-size " "size"
                     93: .TQ "\-r " "size"
                     94: Allocate
                     95: .I size
                     96: space for the return stack instead of using the
                     97: default specified in the image (typically 16K).
                     98: .TP
                     99: .BI "\-\-fp\-stack\-size " "size"
                    100: .TQ "\-f " "size"
                    101: Allocate
                    102: .I size
                    103: space for the floating point stack instead of
                    104: using the default specified in the image (typically 16K). In this case
                    105: the unit specifier
                    106: \fCe\fR
                    107: refers to floating point numbers.
                    108: .TP
                    109: .BI "\-\-locals\-stack\-size " "size"
                    110: .TQ "\-l " "size"
                    111: Allocate
                    112: .I size
                    113: space for the locals stack instead of using the
                    114: default specified in the image (typically 16K).
                    115: 
                    116: .TP
                    117: .BI "\-\-evaluate " "forth"
                    118: .TQ "\-e " "forth"
                    119: Evaluates the
                    120: .I forth
                    121: code. This option takes only one argument; if you want to evaluate
                    122: more Forth words, you have to quote them or use several \fC-e\fRs.  To
                    123: exit after processing the command line (instead of entering
                    124: interactive mode) append \fC-e bye\fR to the command line. This is an
                    125: image-specific option of the default image.
                    126: .SH FILES
                    127: .nf
1.3     ! anton     128: .ta \w'\fC.../gforth.fi\fP     'u
        !           129: \&\fC.../gforth.fi\fP  default Forth image
1.1       anton     130: \&\fC*.fi\fP   Forth loadable image
                    131: \&\fC*.fs\fP   Forth source (sequential)
                    132: \&\fC*.fb\fP   Forth source (block)
                    133: \&\fC*.fd\fP   generated with \fCmakedoc.fs\fP
                    134: \&\fC*.i\fP    C include files
                    135: \&\fC*.ds\fP   documentation source
                    136: \&\fC*TAGS\fP  etags files
                    137: .fi
                    138: .SH SEE ALSO
                    139: The GForth manual is available in hypertext (Info, HTML) and printable
                    140: (TeX, PS) forms.
                    141: 
                    142: The ANSI document X3.215-1994 (i.e., the ANS Forth standard).
                    143: 
                    144: More information on Gforth (e.g., pointers to new versions, to the
                    145: manual on the WWW and to papers about Gforth) is available through
                    146: \fChttp://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html\fR.
                    147: .SH AUTHORS
                    148: \fBGforth\fR was written by Anton Ertl, Bernd Paysan, Jens Wilke and
                    149: others.