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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 : | pazsan | 1.27 | Windows 95 using CygWin32 beta 18, 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 : | pazsan | 1.25 | *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within |
| 39 : | anton | 1.26 | gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...") |
| 40 : | pazsan | 1.25 | *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>") |
| 41 : | *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load") | ||
| 42 : | anton | 1.4 | *.i C include files |
| 43 : | *.ds documenation source | ||
| 44 : | *TAGS etags files | ||
| 45 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 46 : | anton | 1.11 | A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are |
| 47 : | not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in | ||
| 48 : | the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview: | ||
| 49 : | |||
| 50 : | Add-ons: | ||
| 51 : | code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs | ||
| 52 : | anton | 1.19 | oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs |
| 53 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 54 : | Utilities: | ||
| 55 : | anton | 1.19 | ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
| 56 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 57 : | Games: | ||
| 58 : | tt.fs sokoban.fs | ||
| 59 : | |||
| 60 : | anton | 1.19 | Test programs (for testing Forth systems): |
| 61 : | tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs | ||
| 62 : | anton | 1.11 | checkans.fs wordsets.fs |
| 63 : | |||
| 64 : | Benchmarks: | ||
| 65 : | anton | 1.24 | bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
| 66 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 67 : | ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: | ||
| 68 : | anton | 1.12 | compat/*.fs other.fs |
| 69 : | pazsan | 1.27 | |
| 70 : | There's a mailing list for things around Gforth that aren't bugs | ||
| 71 : | (suggestions, discussions, etc.). To post, send your mail to | ||
| 72 : | GForth@ChaosSolutions.com. To subscribe, send a mail to | ||
| 73 : | Mdaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with: | ||
| 74 : | |||
| 75 : | subscribe GForth | ||
| 76 : | |||
| 77 : | as the first and only line within the message body. | ||
| 78 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 79 : | |||
| 80 : | anton | 1.1 | - anton |
| 81 : | anton | 1.6 | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
| 82 : | pazsan | 1.18 | http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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