--- gforth/NEWS	1996/10/02 09:48:54	1.2
+++ gforth/NEWS	1998/11/27 21:30:22	1.7
@@ -1,24 +1,119 @@
-User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0
+User-visible changes between 0.3.0 and 0.4.0:
+
+Operating environment:
+
+Path handling: "." at the start of the path represents the directory
+  the nearest enclosing file resides in (if there is none: the working
+  directory). "~+" indicates the working directory.  The default path
+  now has "." in front.
+gforth and gforthmi is now more GNU standards compliant (wrt
+  command-line options).
+New command-line-option: --die-on-signal
+Errors are now directed to stderr.
+Stdout is now unbuffered, if it is a tty.
+User input device redirection (for filters) is now possible.
+
+Ports:
+
+Now runs on IRIX (and other MIPS-based systems without linker-flag -d).
+Direct threading now works on PowerPC (20% speedup on 604e).
+Better support for m68k (thanks to Andreas Schwab and Jorge Acereda).
+It is possible to create executables that contain the image (for
+  non-OS systems).
+
+Added a lot of embedded control (EC) stuff. Supported controllers and
+small CPUs are Siemens C16x, 8086, 6502, Mixed-Mode's FPGA MISC, Bernd Paysan's
+4stack processor. Not finished: ShBoom alias PSC1000, H8, AVR.
+
+New, changed, and removed words:
+
+Renamed F0 to FP0 (avoids unexpected behaviour in hex), added aliases
+  SP0, RP0, LP0 (recommended for future use) for S0, R0, L0.
+Renamed PARSE-WORD into SWORD (PARSE-WORD is used with the meaning of
+  NAME in OpenBoot and dpans6 A.6.2.2008)
+Added FPICK (suggested by Julian Noble).
+Added EXCEPTION.
+S" gforth" ENVIRONMENT? now produces the version-string.
+Changed representation of types in struct package, and correspondingly
+  changed names.
+
+Miscellaneous:
+
+Plain text documentation is now available in doc/gforth.txt.
+Documentation improvements.
+Wordlist structure changed.
+Added mini-oof.
+Reorganized files: added directories and reorganized many files into
+  them; renamed files into 8.3 format to work with completely broken
+  systems (but there are again some files that won't work there).
+Bug fixes.
+Various changes without log information only known as mega-patches.
+Cross compiler now also supports compilation only for undefined or forward
+referenced words. Plugins to support some native code generation
+(for PSC1000).
+More files in the compat library.
+
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.2.1 and 0.3.0:
+
+Stack overflow detection by memory protection on most systems
+	(allocation with mmap).
+gforth.fi is now fully relocatable.
+fully relocatable images are now easier to create.
+added primitives K and UNDER+.
+Win32 support.
+Improved support for embedded controllers and other deprived environments.
+some bug fixes.
+added concept index; other documentation improvements.
+
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1:
+
+Bug fixes
+
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0:
+
+Portability and Installation:
 
-Improved etags support.
-more.fs allows output paging.
-Changed popen and pclose to open-pipe and close-pipe.
-Added form, rows, and cols.
-Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features.
-added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR; EMIT and TYPE now work
-through file words (and are redirectable).
 Support architectures with buggy long longs (alpha-dec-osf).
-Added tiny multitasker.
+Better support for DOS and other non-Unix systems.
 Size changes through the command line are passed to the image (and
 saved with savesystem); the preamble specifies an interpreter and is
 propagated by save-system.
-Added tables (case-sensitive wordlists)
+
+Tools:
+
+Improved etags support.
+more.fs allows output paging.
+Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features.
+Added tiny multitasker (tasker.fs).
+Added two alternatives for object-oriented programming: oof.fs, objects.fs.
+Added ans-report.fs (reports which words are used from which wordset).
+
+New words:
+
+Changed POPEN and PCLOSE to OPEN-PIPE and CLOSE-PIPE.
+Added FORM, ROWS, and COLS.
+added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR.
+Added TABLEs (case-sensitive wordlists).
+added POSTPONE,.
+Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation
+semantics (INTERPRET/COMPILE:); state-smart words were generally
+rewritten to use that mechanism.
+
+Changes to existing words:
+
+EMIT and TYPE now work through file words (and are redirectable).
 HEADER now stores the compilation wordlist in the header and REVEAL
 reveals into that wordlist.
-changed bahviour of system (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in
-$?)  added (system) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
-Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation
-semantics; state-smart words were generally rewritten to use that
-mechanism.
+changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in
+$?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
 ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
-added POSTPONE,.
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+
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