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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 : anton 1.22 the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,
12 :     sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2.
13 :    
14 :     i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
15 : anton 1.21 alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4,
16 : pazsan 1.18 sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see
17 : pazsan 1.20 INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using
18 :     DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help
19 :     to finish compilation.
20 : anton 1.1
21 : pazsan 1.20 Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and
22 :     OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
23 : anton 1.7 the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
24 : anton 1.10
25 : anton 1.12 You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
26 :     or at
27 : anton 1.10
28 : anton 1.12 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
29 : anton 1.10 or
30 : anton 1.12 ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
31 : anton 1.10
32 : anton 1.14 The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
33 :     popular platforms.
34 : anton 1.1
35 : anton 1.7 If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
36 :     in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
37 :     it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
38 :     doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
39 :     the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
40 : anton 1.4
41 :     On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
42 :    
43 :     *.fs Forth stream source file
44 :     *.fi Forth image files
45 :     *.fb Forth blocks file
46 :     *.i C include files
47 :     *.ds documenation source
48 :     *TAGS etags files
49 : anton 1.1
50 : anton 1.11 A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
51 :     not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
52 :     the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
53 :    
54 :     Add-ons:
55 :     code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
56 : anton 1.19 oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
57 : anton 1.11
58 :     Utilities:
59 : anton 1.19 ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
60 : anton 1.11
61 :     Games:
62 :     tt.fs sokoban.fs
63 :    
64 : anton 1.19 Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
65 :     tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
66 : anton 1.11 checkans.fs wordsets.fs
67 :    
68 :     Benchmarks:
69 :     bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
70 :    
71 :     ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
72 : anton 1.12 compat/*.fs other.fs
73 : anton 1.11
74 :    
75 : anton 1.1 - anton
76 : anton 1.6 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
77 : pazsan 1.18 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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