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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 : pazsan 1.23 systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the
11 :     following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,
12 :     sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2, i586-unknown-linux,
13 :     hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using DJGPP 2.0,
14 :     Windows 95 using CygWin32 beta 17, OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c.
15 : anton 1.22
16 : pazsan 1.23 Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows
17 :     95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
18 : anton 1.7 the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
19 : anton 1.10
20 : anton 1.12 You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
21 :     or at
22 : anton 1.10
23 : anton 1.12 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
24 : anton 1.10 or
25 : anton 1.12 ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
26 : anton 1.10
27 : anton 1.14 The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
28 :     popular platforms.
29 : anton 1.1
30 : anton 1.7 If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
31 :     in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
32 :     it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
33 :     doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
34 :     the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
35 : anton 1.4
36 :     On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
37 :    
38 :     *.fs Forth stream source file
39 :     *.fi Forth image files
40 :     *.fb Forth blocks file
41 :     *.i C include files
42 :     *.ds documenation source
43 :     *TAGS etags files
44 : anton 1.1
45 : anton 1.11 A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
46 :     not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
47 :     the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
48 :    
49 :     Add-ons:
50 :     code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
51 : anton 1.19 oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
52 : anton 1.11
53 :     Utilities:
54 : anton 1.19 ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
55 : anton 1.11
56 :     Games:
57 :     tt.fs sokoban.fs
58 :    
59 : anton 1.19 Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
60 :     tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
61 : anton 1.11 checkans.fs wordsets.fs
62 :    
63 :     Benchmarks:
64 : anton 1.24 bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
65 : anton 1.11
66 :     ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
67 : anton 1.12 compat/*.fs other.fs
68 : anton 1.11
69 :    
70 : anton 1.1 - anton
71 : anton 1.6 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
72 : pazsan 1.18 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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