--- gforth/INSTALL.DOS 1996/09/23 20:41:58 1.2 +++ gforth/INSTALL.DOS 1996/11/07 22:31:32 1.4 @@ -5,11 +5,17 @@ features of the 80386, but on the other required if you don't have a DPMI host yourself (Windows/OS/2/Linux DOS-box, Quemm or others). -Gforth hasn't been tested with EMX, using EMX will require some changes in -the console IO part. If you don't want to install the DJGPP package (quite -large), look for a binary distribution of Gforth for DOS. You must have a -version of GNU make, because DOS make programs are likely to have problems -with the Makefile. If you want to change Gforth, you may need GNU m4, too. +Gforth hasn't been tested with EMX, using EMX will require some +changes in the console IO part. For OS/2 EMX supports POSIX-style tty, +so it might just compile out of the box. If you don't want to install +the DJGPP package (quite large), look for a binary distribution of +Gforth for DOS. You also must have a version of GNU make, because DOS +make programs are likely to have problems with the Makefile. If you +want to change Gforth, you may need GNU m4, too. Because DJGPP +provides use of long filenames under Windows 95, you should unpack the +gforth package with a Windows-95-aware archiver (those from DJGPP come +in mind), because otherwise gforth will not find the necessary +files. There is no such problem when using MS-DOS prior 7.x. If you don't bother and want to make it yourself, type @@ -22,10 +28,10 @@ configure has the following useful param some processors (default disabled). --enable-direct-threaded Force direct threading. This may not work on some machines and may cause slowdown on others. - (default processor-dependent) + (default disabled) --enable-indirect-threaded Force indirect threading. This can cause a slowdown on some machines. - (default processor-dependent) + (default enabled) After covering all inconveniences, type @@ -47,11 +53,11 @@ command lines. Add the following entry to your Autoexec.bat: -SET GFORTHPATH=:. +SET GFORTHPATH=;. -Use / instead of \ in your gforth source directory. Another problem -is, that Gforth uses : as path separator, and DOS pathes may look like -D:/gforth. Sorry, there is no workaround for this now. +Use / instead of \ in your gforth source directory. Gforth now uses +';' as path separator, so you won't have problems with DOS pathes that +may contain ':', which is the default path separator in Unix. For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better