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1 : anton 1.7 Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
2 : anton 1.8 language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
3 : anton 1.9 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 : anton 1.8
9 :     Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
10 : anton 1.19 systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
11 : pazsan 1.18 the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
12 : anton 1.21 alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4,
13 : pazsan 1.18 sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see
14 : pazsan 1.20 INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using
15 :     DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help
16 :     to finish compilation.
17 : anton 1.1
18 : pazsan 1.20 Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and
19 :     OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
20 : anton 1.7 the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
21 : anton 1.10
22 : anton 1.12 You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
23 :     or at
24 : anton 1.10
25 : anton 1.12 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
26 : anton 1.10 or
27 : anton 1.12 ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
28 : anton 1.10
29 : anton 1.14 The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
30 :     popular platforms.
31 : anton 1.1
32 : anton 1.7 If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
33 :     in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
34 :     it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
35 :     doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
36 :     the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
37 : anton 1.4
38 :     On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
39 :    
40 :     *.fs Forth stream source file
41 :     *.fi Forth image files
42 :     *.fb Forth blocks file
43 :     *.i C include files
44 :     *.ds documenation source
45 :     *TAGS etags files
46 : anton 1.1
47 : anton 1.11 A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
48 :     not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
49 :     the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
50 :    
51 :     Add-ons:
52 :     code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
53 : anton 1.19 oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
54 : anton 1.11
55 :     Utilities:
56 : anton 1.19 ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
57 : anton 1.11
58 :     Games:
59 :     tt.fs sokoban.fs
60 :    
61 : anton 1.19 Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
62 :     tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
63 : anton 1.11 checkans.fs wordsets.fs
64 :    
65 :     Benchmarks:
66 :     bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
67 :    
68 :     ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
69 : anton 1.12 compat/*.fs other.fs
70 : anton 1.11
71 :    
72 : anton 1.1 - anton
73 : anton 1.6 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
74 : pazsan 1.18 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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