Diff for /gforth/NEWS between versions 1.5 and 1.6

version 1.5, 1997/03/19 18:27:09 version 1.6, 1998/11/24 14:49:11
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   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.
   
   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.
   More files in the compat library.
   
   
   
 User-visible changes between 0.2.1 and 0.3.0:  User-visible changes between 0.2.1 and 0.3.0:
   
 Stack overflow detection by memory protection on most systems  Stack overflow detection by memory protection on most systems
Line 10  Improved support for embedded controller Line 61  Improved support for embedded controller
 some bug fixes.  some bug fixes.
 added concept index; other documentation improvements.  added concept index; other documentation improvements.
   
   
   
 User-visible changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1:  User-visible changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1:
   
 Bug fixes  Bug fixes
   
   
   
 User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0:  User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0:
   
 Portability and Installation:  Portability and Installation:
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 $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).  $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
 ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.  ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
   
   
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   % fill-prefix: "  "

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