| This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability. The main |
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| thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation. |
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| 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 a manual. Gforth employs traditional |
decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a |
| implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct |
manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with |
| threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license |
newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner |
| (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, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
| port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested |
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| successfully on the following platforms: |
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 |
| alpha-dec-osf4.0d |
supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the |
| alpha-unknown-linux-gnu |
following platforms: |
| hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu |
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| hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 |
i386-unknown-linux-gnu |
| i386-unknown-freebsd4.7 |
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu |
| i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 |
i386-apple-darwin9.4.0 |
| i686-pc-linux-gnu |
x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0 |
| mips-dec-ultrix4.3 |
ppc-apple-darwin9.4.0 |
| mipsel-pc-linux-gnu |
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| mips-sgi-irix6.5 |
Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS |
| powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 |
for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have |
| powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
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. |
| Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
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| Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after |
To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
| installing it). |
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| You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
| and its mirrors or at |
and its mirrors or at |
| For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
| comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a |
comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a |
| mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
| gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with: |
gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with: |
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| subscribe GForth |
subscribe GForth |
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- 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) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007 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 3 |
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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, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. |
