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   This snapshot is mainly intended as a Vmgen release.  The Gforth part
   has known bugs, and likely has portability problems (which Vmgen
   inherits, of course) on anything but 386 and Alpha platforms.  A
   full-blown and portable release will be released Real Soon Now:-).
   
 Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth  Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
 language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice  language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
 features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals  features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
 facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs  facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
 traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is  implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
 indirect or direct threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU  threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
 General Public license (see COPYING).  (see COPYING).
   
 Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other  Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
 systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on  port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
 Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS).  successfully on the following platforms:
   
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail  i686-pc-linux-gnu
 bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start  
 the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).  Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
   Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
   To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
   
 You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors  You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
 or at  and its mirrors or at
   
 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
 or  or
 ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/  ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
   
 This site will contains binary distributions of Gforth for some  The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
 popular platforms.  popular platforms.
   
 If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found  If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
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 On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:  On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
   
 *.fs    Forth stream source file  *.fs    Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
 *.fi    Forth image files          gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
 *.fb    Forth blocks file  *.fi    Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
   *.fb    Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
 *.i     C include files  *.i     C include files
 *.ds    documenation source  *.ds    documenation source
 *TAGS   etags files  *TAGS   etags files
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 Add-ons:  Add-ons:
 code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs  code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
   oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
   
 Utilities:  Utilities:
 etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs  ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
   
 Games:  Games:
 tt.fs sokoban.fs  tt.fs sokoban.fs
   
 Test programs:  Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
 tester.fs coretest.fs  test/*.fs
 checkans.fs wordsets.fs  
   
 Benchmarks:  Benchmarks:
 bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs  bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
   
 ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:  ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
 compat/*.fs other.fs  compat/*.fs other.fs
   
   For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
   comp.lang.forth.  If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
   mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org.  To subscribe, send a mail to
   gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
   
   subscribe GForth
   
   as the first and only line within the message body.  Send bug reports
   to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not).
   
   
 - anton  - anton
 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at  anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html  
   
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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