| Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
| language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
| features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals |
features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a |
| facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs |
decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a |
| traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is |
manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with |
| indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU |
newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner |
| General Public license (see COPYING). |
interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can |
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also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is |
| Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
| systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on |
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| Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS). |
Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X, |
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OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems |
| Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail |
supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the |
| bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start |
following platforms: |
| the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
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alpha-dec-osf4.0d |
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alpha-unknown-linux-gnu |
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alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu |
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hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu |
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hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00 |
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hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 |
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i386-unknown-freebsd5.1 |
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i686-pc-cygwin |
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i686-pc-linux-gnu |
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mips-sgi-irix6.5 |
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mipsel-pc-linux-gnu |
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powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 |
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powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
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sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 |
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sparc-unknown-linux-gnu |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS |
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for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have |
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a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received |
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a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions. |
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| You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors |
To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
| or at |
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You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
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and its mirrors or at |
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| http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ |
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ |
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or |
| ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
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| This site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some popular |
The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some |
| platforms. |
popular platforms. |
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| If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
| in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
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| On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: |
On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: |
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| *.fs Forth stream source file |
*.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within |
| *.fi Forth image files |
gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...") |
| *.fb Forth blocks file |
*.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>") |
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*.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load") |
| *.i C include files |
*.i C include files |
| *.ds documenation source |
*.ds documenation source |
| *TAGS etags files |
*TAGS etags files |
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| Add-ons: |
Add-ons: |
| code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs |
code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs |
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oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs |
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| Utilities: |
Utilities: |
| etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
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| Games: |
Games: |
| tt.fs sokoban.fs |
tt.fs sokoban.fs |
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| Test programs: |
Test programs (for testing Forth systems): |
| tester.fs coretest.fs |
test/*.fs |
| checkans.fs wordsets.fs |
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| Benchmarks: |
Benchmarks: |
| bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs |
bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
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| ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
| compat/*.fs other.fs |
compat/*.fs other.fs |
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For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
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comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a |
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mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
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gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with: |
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subscribe GForth |
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as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug |
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reports through |
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https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth |
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(whether you post them or not). |
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| - anton |
- anton |
| anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
| http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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This file is part of Gforth. |
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Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 |
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the |
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GNU General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. |
