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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 | 1.54 | features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a |
| 4 : | decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a | ||
| 5 : | manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with | ||
| 6 : | anton | 1.56 | newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner |
| 7 : | interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can | ||
| 8 : | also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is | ||
| 9 : | distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). | ||
| 10 : | anton | 1.8 | |
| 11 : | anton | 1.59 | Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X, |
| 12 : | OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems | ||
| 13 : | supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the | ||
| 14 : | following platforms: | ||
| 15 : | pazsan | 1.31 | |
| 16 : | anton | 1.63 | x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu |
| 17 : | anton | 1.22 | |
| 18 : | anton | 1.58 | Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS |
| 19 : | for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have | ||
| 20 : | a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received | ||
| 21 : | a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions. | ||
| 22 : | |||
| 23 : | anton | 1.53 | To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
| 24 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 25 : | anton | 1.42 | You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
| 26 : | and its mirrors 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 | 1.42 | The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some |
| 33 : | anton | 1.14 | 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 : | pazsan | 1.25 | *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within |
| 44 : | anton | 1.26 | gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...") |
| 45 : | pazsan | 1.25 | *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>") |
| 46 : | *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load") | ||
| 47 : | anton | 1.4 | *.i C include files |
| 48 : | *.ds documenation source | ||
| 49 : | *TAGS etags files | ||
| 50 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 51 : | anton | 1.11 | A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are |
| 52 : | not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in | ||
| 53 : | the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview: | ||
| 54 : | |||
| 55 : | Add-ons: | ||
| 56 : | code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs | ||
| 57 : | crook | 1.36 | oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs |
| 58 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 59 : | Utilities: | ||
| 60 : | anton | 1.19 | ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
| 61 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 62 : | Games: | ||
| 63 : | tt.fs sokoban.fs | ||
| 64 : | |||
| 65 : | anton | 1.19 | Test programs (for testing Forth systems): |
| 66 : | anton | 1.29 | test/*.fs |
| 67 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 68 : | Benchmarks: | ||
| 69 : | anton | 1.24 | bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
| 70 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 71 : | ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: | ||
| 72 : | anton | 1.12 | compat/*.fs other.fs |
| 73 : | pazsan | 1.27 | |
| 74 : | anton | 1.30 | For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
| 75 : | comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a | ||
| 76 : | anton | 1.41 | mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
| 77 : | anton | 1.61 | gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with: |
| 78 : | pazsan | 1.27 | |
| 79 : | subscribe GForth | ||
| 80 : | |||
| 81 : | anton | 1.47 | as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug |
| 82 : | reports through | ||
| 83 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 84 : | anton | 1.47 | https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth |
| 85 : | |||
| 86 : | (whether you post them or not). | ||
| 87 : | anton | 1.11 | |
| 88 : | anton | 1.1 | - anton |
| 89 : | anton | 1.6 | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
| 90 : | pazsan | 1.18 | http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
| 91 : | anton | 1.49 | ----- |
| 92 : | anton | 1.62 | Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 93 : | anton | 1.49 | |
| 94 : | This file is part of Gforth. | ||
| 95 : | |||
| 96 : | Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | ||
| 97 : | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License | ||
| 98 : | as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 | ||
| 99 : | of the License, or (at your option) any later version. | ||
| 100 : | |||
| 101 : | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | ||
| 102 : | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | ||
| 103 : | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the | ||
| 104 : | GNU General Public License for more details. | ||
| 105 : | |||
| 106 : | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | ||
| 107 : | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | ||
| 108 : | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. |
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