gforth: gforth/README

1 :	anton	1.1	This is the current state (pre-alpha) of gforth. This is not a
2 :			distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature
3 :			enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is
4 :			distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
5 :
6 :			You will probably find a Linux binary included in the package and the
7 :			configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another
8 :			system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have
9 :			problems).
10 :
11 :			To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren
12 :			system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss
13 :			a word, just grep for it in *.fs.
14 :
15 :			If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password
16 :			(i.e., what you find in /etc/passwd). Tasks to be done can be found in
17 :			ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's
18 :			ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The
19 :			most important tasks IMO are the configuartion script, the missing ANS
20 :			Forth words (musts before the alpha release), speeding up the loading
21 :			of startup.fs, the documentation, adding readline and the foreign
22 :			language interface for C.
23 :
24 :			- anton