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| 1 : | anton | 1.46 | This snapshot is mainly intended as a Vmgen release. The Gforth part |
| 2 : | has known bugs, and likely has portability problems (which Vmgen | ||
| 3 : | inherits, of course) on anything but 386 and Alpha platforms. A | ||
| 4 : | full-blown and portable release will be released Real Soon Now:-). | ||
| 5 : | |||
| 6 : | anton | 1.7 | Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
| 7 : | anton | 1.8 | language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
| 8 : | anton | 1.9 | features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals |
| 9 : | anton | 1.43 | facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional |
| 10 : | implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct | ||
| 11 : | threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license | ||
| 12 : | (see COPYING). | ||
| 13 : | anton | 1.8 | |
| 14 : | pazsan | 1.31 | Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to |
| 15 : | port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested | ||
| 16 : | successfully on the following platforms: | ||
| 17 : | |||
| 18 : | anton | 1.43 | i686-pc-linux-gnu |
| 19 : | anton | 1.22 | |
| 20 : | anton | 1.37 | Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
| 21 : | anton | 1.47 | Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after |
| 22 : | installing it). | ||
| 23 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 24 : | anton | 1.42 | You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
| 25 : | and its mirrors or at | ||
| 26 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 27 : | anton | 1.12 | http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ |
| 28 : | anton | 1.10 | or |
| 29 : | anton | 1.12 | ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
| 30 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 31 : | anton | 1.42 | The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some |
| 32 : | anton | 1.14 | popular platforms. |
| 33 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 34 : | anton | 1.7 | If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
| 35 : | in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, | ||
| 36 : | it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are | ||
| 37 : | doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words, | ||
| 38 : | the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. | ||
| 39 : | anton | 1.4 | |
| 40 : | On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: | ||
| 41 : | |||
| 42 : | pazsan | 1.25 | *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within |
| 43 : | anton | 1.26 | gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...") |
| 44 : | pazsan | 1.25 | *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>") |
| 45 : | *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load") | ||
| 46 : | anton | 1.4 | *.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 : | crook | 1.36 | oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.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 : | anton | 1.29 | test/*.fs |
| 66 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 67 : | Benchmarks: | ||
| 68 : | anton | 1.24 | bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
| 69 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 70 : | ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: | ||
| 71 : | anton | 1.12 | compat/*.fs other.fs |
| 72 : | pazsan | 1.27 | |
| 73 : | anton | 1.30 | For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
| 74 : | comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a | ||
| 75 : | anton | 1.41 | mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
| 76 : | anton | 1.45 | gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with: |
| 77 : | pazsan | 1.27 | |
| 78 : | subscribe GForth | ||
| 79 : | |||
| 80 : | anton | 1.47 | as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug |
| 81 : | reports through | ||
| 82 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 83 : | anton | 1.47 | https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth |
| 84 : | |||
| 85 : | (whether you post them or not). | ||
| 86 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 87 : | anton | 1.1 | - anton |
| 88 : | anton | 1.6 | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
| 89 : | pazsan | 1.18 | http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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