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| 6 : | crook | 1.4 | .TH GForth 1 "April 14, 1999" \" -*- nroff -*- |
| 7 : | anton | 1.1 | .SH NAME |
| 8 : | anton | 1.5 | gforth, gforth-fast, gforthmi \- a fast and portable Forth system |
| 9 : | anton | 1.1 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 10 : | |||
| 11 : | \fCgforth\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options] | ||
| 12 : | anton | 1.5 | \fCgforth-fast\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options] |
| 13 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 14 : | anton | 1.3 | \fCgforthmi\fR \fIfilename\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options] |
| 15 : | anton | 1.1 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 16 : | |||
| 17 : | \fBGForth\fR is a fast and portable implementation of the Forth | ||
| 18 : | programming language. For details read the manual. | ||
| 19 : | .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | ||
| 20 : | |||
| 21 : | \fCGFORTHPATH\fR contains the search path for source and image files. | ||
| 22 : | |||
| 23 : | \fCGFORTHD\fR gives the gforth executable used by | ||
| 24 : | anton | 1.3 | \fCgforthmi\fR for creating the base images. It should be a |
| 25 : | anton | 1.1 | double indirect threaded system. Default: \fCgforth-ditc\fR. |
| 26 : | |||
| 27 : | \fCGFORTH\fR gives the gforth executable used by | ||
| 28 : | anton | 1.3 | \fCgforthmi\fR for computing the relocatable image from the |
| 29 : | anton | 1.1 | base images. Default: \fCgforth\fR. |
| 30 : | |||
| 31 : | crook | 1.4 | \fCGFORTHHIST\fR gives the location of the history file used by gforth |
| 32 : | to allow command-line recall. Default: \fC$HOME\fR. (The history | ||
| 33 : | file is named \fC.gforth-history\fR). | ||
| 34 : | |||
| 35 : | anton | 1.1 | .SH EXAMPLES |
| 36 : | |||
| 37 : | \fCgforth\fR | ||
| 38 : | |||
| 39 : | starts the system and goes into interactive mode. | ||
| 40 : | |||
| 41 : | \fCgforth file1 file2 \-e bye\fR | ||
| 42 : | |||
| 43 : | loads and interprets the files \fCfile1\fR and \fCfile2\fR, then | ||
| 44 : | exits. | ||
| 45 : | anton | 1.5 | |
| 46 : | \fCgforth-fast\fR | ||
| 47 : | |||
| 48 : | is the same as \fCgforth-fast\fR, except that it does not support | ||
| 49 : | accurate backtraces for signals, and is faster by up to a factor of 2. | ||
| 50 : | Use it for debugged, performance-critical programs such as benchmarks. | ||
| 51 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 52 : | anton | 1.3 | \fCgforthmi asm.fi \-m 1M asm.fs\fR |
| 53 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 54 : | creates an image \fCasm.fi\fR that has a default dictionary size of | ||
| 55 : | 1MB and has the file \fCasm.fs\fR loaded. | ||
| 56 : | |||
| 57 : | .SH OPTIONS | ||
| 58 : | |||
| 59 : | anton | 1.2 | .BI "\-\-help" |
| 60 : | .TQ "\-h" | ||
| 61 : | Lists the available options, including some not described here (see | ||
| 62 : | also the manual). | ||
| 63 : | .TP | ||
| 64 : | anton | 1.1 | .BI "\-\-image\-file " "file" |
| 65 : | .TQ "\-i " "file" | ||
| 66 : | Loads the Forth image | ||
| 67 : | .I file | ||
| 68 : | instead of the default \fCgforth.fi\fR. | ||
| 69 : | .TP | ||
| 70 : | .BI "\-\-path " "path" | ||
| 71 : | .TQ "\-p " "path" | ||
| 72 : | Uses | ||
| 73 : | .I path | ||
| 74 : | for searching the image file and Forth source code | ||
| 75 : | files instead of the default in the environment variable | ||
| 76 : | \fCGFORTHPATH\fR | ||
| 77 : | or the path specified at installation time (typically | ||
| 78 : | \fC/usr/local/lib/gforth:.\fR. A path is given as a | ||
| 79 : | .BR : -separated | ||
| 80 : | list. | ||
| 81 : | .TP | ||
| 82 : | .BI "\-\-dictionary\-size " "size" | ||
| 83 : | .TQ "\-m " "size" | ||
| 84 : | Allocate | ||
| 85 : | .I size | ||
| 86 : | space for the Forth dictionary space instead of | ||
| 87 : | using the default specified in the image (typically 256K). The | ||
| 88 : | .I size | ||
| 89 : | specification consists of an integer and a unit (e.g., \fC4M\fR). | ||
| 90 : | The unit can be one of \fCb\fR (bytes), | ||
| 91 : | \fCe\fR (element size, in this case Cells), | ||
| 92 : | \fCk\fR (kilobytes), and | ||
| 93 : | \fCM\fR (Megabytes). If no unit is specified, | ||
| 94 : | \fCe\fR is used. | ||
| 95 : | .TP | ||
| 96 : | .BI "\-\-data\-stack\-size " "size" | ||
| 97 : | .TQ "\-d " "size" | ||
| 98 : | Allocate | ||
| 99 : | .I size | ||
| 100 : | space for the data stack instead of using the | ||
| 101 : | default specified in the image (typically 16K). | ||
| 102 : | .TP | ||
| 103 : | .BI "\-\-return\-stack\-size " "size" | ||
| 104 : | .TQ "\-r " "size" | ||
| 105 : | Allocate | ||
| 106 : | .I size | ||
| 107 : | space for the return stack instead of using the | ||
| 108 : | default specified in the image (typically 16K). | ||
| 109 : | .TP | ||
| 110 : | .BI "\-\-fp\-stack\-size " "size" | ||
| 111 : | .TQ "\-f " "size" | ||
| 112 : | Allocate | ||
| 113 : | .I size | ||
| 114 : | space for the floating point stack instead of | ||
| 115 : | using the default specified in the image (typically 16K). In this case | ||
| 116 : | the unit specifier | ||
| 117 : | \fCe\fR | ||
| 118 : | refers to floating point numbers. | ||
| 119 : | .TP | ||
| 120 : | .BI "\-\-locals\-stack\-size " "size" | ||
| 121 : | .TQ "\-l " "size" | ||
| 122 : | Allocate | ||
| 123 : | .I size | ||
| 124 : | space for the locals stack instead of using the | ||
| 125 : | default specified in the image (typically 16K). | ||
| 126 : | |||
| 127 : | .TP | ||
| 128 : | .BI "\-\-evaluate " "forth" | ||
| 129 : | .TQ "\-e " "forth" | ||
| 130 : | Evaluates the | ||
| 131 : | .I forth | ||
| 132 : | code. This option takes only one argument; if you want to evaluate | ||
| 133 : | more Forth words, you have to quote them or use several \fC-e\fRs. To | ||
| 134 : | exit after processing the command line (instead of entering | ||
| 135 : | interactive mode) append \fC-e bye\fR to the command line. This is an | ||
| 136 : | image-specific option of the default image. | ||
| 137 : | .SH FILES | ||
| 138 : | .nf | ||
| 139 : | anton | 1.3 | .ta \w'\fC.../gforth.fi\fP 'u |
| 140 : | \&\fC.../gforth.fi\fP default Forth image | ||
| 141 : | anton | 1.1 | \&\fC*.fi\fP Forth loadable image |
| 142 : | \&\fC*.fs\fP Forth source (sequential) | ||
| 143 : | \&\fC*.fb\fP Forth source (block) | ||
| 144 : | \&\fC*.fd\fP generated with \fCmakedoc.fs\fP | ||
| 145 : | \&\fC*.i\fP C include files | ||
| 146 : | \&\fC*.ds\fP documentation source | ||
| 147 : | \&\fC*TAGS\fP etags files | ||
| 148 : | .fi | ||
| 149 : | .SH SEE ALSO | ||
| 150 : | crook | 1.4 | The Gforth manual - available in hypertext (Info, HTML) and printable |
| 151 : | (TeX, PS, ASCII) forms. | ||
| 152 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 153 : | The ANSI document X3.215-1994 (i.e., the ANS Forth standard). | ||
| 154 : | |||
| 155 : | More information on Gforth (e.g., pointers to new versions, to the | ||
| 156 : | manual on the WWW and to papers about Gforth) is available through | ||
| 157 : | \fChttp://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html\fR. | ||
| 158 : | .SH AUTHORS | ||
| 159 : | \fBGforth\fR was written by Anton Ertl, Bernd Paysan, Jens Wilke and | ||
| 160 : | others. |
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