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updated copyright years

updated INSTALL, README
documented some configuration variables in configure.in

Try to make old libffi.fs work again

updated copyright years

added missing dependency
documentation changes

updated cross-configuration information

documentation updates
fixed some portability bugs in vmgen-ex and vmgen-ex2
updated copyright years

updated version number
documentation changes
minor changes

added copyright messages to a lot of files
removed some obsolete or non-source files

Declared some environment variables in configure.in
cleaned up PEEPHOLE configuration options (no longer used in C code)
related documentation changes in INSTALL

Better discussion of cross-installation in INSTALL.
Force direct threading everywhere (indirect threading currentldoes not work).
make target "gforths" builds and copies all engines.

add kernel.TAGS dependency and target in the Makefile

Added some notes on how to install 'info' files correctly on a GNU/Linux
system.

fixed siteinit.fs-related problems

fixed a few Makefile bugs (make clean)
renamed blocks.fs:flush-file into flush-blocks
fixed bell bug (now flushes the output)
documentation changes

documentation changes: added chapter on image files; added concept index
bug fixes

Fixed some things with DOS

documented cross-configuration and configuration for broken long long.

fixed some small Makefile bugs

Replaced config.guess config.sub with versions from Autoconf 2.10
added FORTHSIZES configuration variable
checked and fixed "make bindist" and "make clean"

Documentation changes
Building in a dir different from the srcdir now works
a few bug fixes

Improved DOS-compilability.

added postponetest.fs
added perform (primitive)
minor changes

added more.fs for people with old terminals.
WORDS and SEE now now respect the terminal size.
a lot of reordering in the Makefile, approaching the GNU standards.
factored NAME>STRING out of many words.
use AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST test in configure.in.
removed emitcounter (it was not used anyway).
SYSTEM now unpreps and repreps the terminal.
fixed byg in prims2x.fs.
added NEEDS, ?CSP, !CSP.
rewrote ALIAS?.

fixed many small things in Makefile.in and configure.in.
Direct threading is now the default on Alphas.

Added INSTALL.DOS
make DOS compile fool-proof (almost ;-)
Use autoconf macro to select GCC and abort if not available.

replced tester.fs and coretest.fs with the new versions from John Hayes
make mostlyclean virtualclean added
Cache-flushing now works on the Alpha (other minor changes there)
configure now uses gcc by default and passes its GCC variable to the Makefile
introduced sourcefilename and sourceline# (and used them in many places).

Added benchmark results
Tried to work around if clause in Makefile.in
Small bugfix in sokoban

added site-int.fs and, more importantly, support for it.
Fixed bugs in SPARC CACHE_FLUSH

some documentation changes
added make targets "bench" and "uninstall"

added copyright headers
changes to loadfilename & co. to make savesystem transparent to
 assertions and ~~

Now gforth.fi is a nonrelocatable image containing all of startup.fs etc.
savesystem now saves `included-files', too (so require does not start from
 scratch)
added/fixed stack effect and wordset documentation for many words in kernal.fs
some reformatting in kernal.fs
fixed some wordset info in primitives
added strsignal

added tilde expansion to primitives
installation now allows parallel versions (like gcc).
The version string is now in only one place

fixed bug in resize ("0 n resize" is now equivalent to "n allocate")
added primitives call-c and strerror
most primitives producing iors now produce error numbers derived from OS error
  numbers (EAGAIN and its kin)
.error now prints OS error messages for OS-derived error numbers.
primitives working with ferror now call clearerr
added a bit of documentation to glocals.fs to satisfy TeX
added definition of CC to Makefile.in again

added ANS Forth implementation of a gforth locals syntax subset
added "make test", fixed "make dist"
fixed typo in kernal.fs

fixed blocks.fb creation bug by making result of create-file readable.

updated INSTALL and README
now demand-paged executables are made everywhere
mips.h now supports Irix

* Changed package a bit
* New INSTALL file
* hash.fs didn't do a good job with 'cold.

added package target to Makefile.in
some documentation changes

Updated ToDo and INSTALL; Wrote README; Lifted COPYING and getopt*
from other packages;  removed $Id$ lines from some files

Initial revision