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                      6: .TH GForth 1 "October 29, 1995" \" -*- nroff -*-
1.1       anton       7: .SH NAME
1.6     ! anton       8: gforth, gforth-ditc, gforth-makeimage \- a fast and portable Forth system
1.1       anton       9: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     10: 
                     11: \fCgforth\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options]
1.6     ! anton      12: 
        !            13: \fCgforth-ditc\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options]
        !            14: 
        !            15: \fCgforth-makeimage\fR \fIfilename\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options]
1.1       anton      16: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     17: 
                     18: \fBGForth\fR is a fast and portable implementation of the Forth
                     19: programming language. For details read the manual.
                     20: .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
                     21: 
1.6     ! anton      22: \fCGFORTHPATH\fR contains the search path for source and image files.
        !            23: 
        !            24: \fCGFORTHD\fR gives the gforth executable to be used in creating the
        !            25: image (default: \fCgforth-ditc\fR).
        !            26: 
1.1       anton      27: .SH EXAMPLES
                     28: 
                     29: \fCgforth\fR
                     30: 
                     31: starts the system and goes into interactive mode.
                     32: 
1.3       pazsan     33: \fCgforth file1 file2 \-e bye\fR
1.1       anton      34: 
                     35: loads and interprets the files \fCfile1\fR and \fCfile2\fR, then
                     36: exits.
1.6     ! anton      37: 
        !            38: \fCgforth asm.fi \-m 1M asm.fs\fR
        !            39: 
        !            40: creates an image \fCasm.fi\fR that has a default dictionary size of
        !            41: 1MB and has the file \fCasm.fs\fR loaded.
        !            42: 
1.3       pazsan     43: .SH OPTIONS
1.1       anton      44: 
1.3       pazsan     45: .BI "\-\-image\-file " "file"
                     46: .TQ "\-i " "file"
                     47: Loads the Forth image
                     48: .I file
                     49: instead of the default \fCgforth.fi\fR.
                     50: .TP
                     51: .BI "\-\-path " "path"
                     52: .TQ "\-p " "path"
                     53: Uses
                     54: .I path
                     55: for searching the image file and Forth source code
                     56: files instead of the default in the environment variable
                     57: \fCGFORTHPATH\fR
                     58: or the path specified at installation time (typically
                     59: \fC/usr/local/lib/gforth:.\fR. A path is given as a 
                     60: .BR : -separated
                     61: list.
                     62: .TP
                     63: .BI "\-\-dictionary\-size " "size"
                     64: .TQ "\-m " "size"
                     65: Allocate
                     66: .I size
                     67: space for the Forth dictionary space instead of
                     68: using the default specified in the image (typically 256K). The
                     69: .I size
                     70: specification consists of an integer and a unit (e.g., \fC4M\fR).
                     71: The unit can be one of \fCb\fR (bytes),
                     72: \fCe\fR (element size, in this case Cells),
                     73: \fCk\fR (kilobytes), and
                     74: \fCM\fR (Megabytes). If no unit is specified,
                     75: \fCe\fR is used.
                     76: .TP
                     77: .BI "\-\-data\-stack\-size " "size"
                     78: .TQ "\-d " "size"
                     79: Allocate
                     80: .I size
                     81: space for the data stack instead of using the
                     82: default specified in the image (typically 16K).
                     83: .TP
                     84: .BI "\-\-return\-stack\-size " "size"
                     85: .TQ "\-r " "size"
                     86: Allocate
                     87: .I size
                     88: space for the return stack instead of using the
                     89: default specified in the image (typically 16K).
                     90: .TP
                     91: .BI "\-\-fp\-stack\-size " "size"
                     92: .TQ "\-f " "size"
                     93: Allocate
                     94: .I size
                     95: space for the floating point stack instead of
                     96: using the default specified in the image (typically 16K). In this case
                     97: the unit specifier
                     98: \fCe\fR
                     99: refers to floating point numbers.
                    100: .TP
                    101: .BI "\-\-locals\-stack\-size " "size"
                    102: .TQ "\-l " "size"
                    103: Allocate
                    104: .I size
                    105: space for the locals stack instead of using the
                    106: default specified in the image (typically 16K).
                    107: 
                    108: .TP
                    109: .BI "\-\-evaluate " "forth"
                    110: .TQ "\-e " "forth"
                    111: Evaluates the
                    112: .I forth
                    113: code. This option takes only one argument; if you want to evaluate
                    114: more Forth words, you have to quote them or use several \fC-e\fRs.  To
                    115: exit after processing the command line (instead of entering
                    116: interactive mode) append \fC-e bye\fR to the command line. This is an
                    117: image-specific option.
                    118: .SH FILES
                    119: .nf
                    120: .ta \w'\fCkernal.fi\fP         'u
                    121: \&\fCgforth.fi\fP      default Forth image
1.6     ! anton     122: \&\fCkernel.fi\fP      kernel image
1.3       pazsan    123: \&\fC*.fi\fP   Forth loadable image
                    124: \&\fC*.fs\fP   Forth source (sequential)
                    125: \&\fC*.fb\fP   Forth source (block)
                    126: \&\fC*.fd\fP   generated with \fCmakedoc.fs\fP
                    127: \&\fC*.i\fP    C include files
1.4       anton     128: \&\fC*.ds\fP   documentation source
1.3       pazsan    129: \&\fC*TAGS\fP  etags files
1.5       pazsan    130: .fi
1.1       anton     131: .SH SEE ALSO
                    132: The GForth manual is available in hypertext (Info, HTML) and printable
                    133: (TeX, PS) forms.
                    134: 
1.4       anton     135: The ANSI document X3.215-1994 (i.e., the ANS Forth standard).
1.2       anton     136: 
                    137: More information on Gforth (e.g., pointers to new versions, to the
                    138: manual on the WWW and to papers about Gforth) is available through
                    139: \fChttp://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html\fR.
1.3       pazsan    140: .SH AUTHORS
                    141: \fBGforth\fR was written by Anton Ertl, Bernd Paysan, Jens Wilke and
                    142: others.