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 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, backtraces, a
 facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs  decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
 traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is  manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
 indirect or direct threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU  newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
 General Public license (see COPYING).  interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can
   also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter.  Gforth is
 Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other  distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
 systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the  
 following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,  Gforth runs under Unix, Win32, MacOS X, OS/2, and DOS and should not
 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2, i586-unknown-linux,  be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has
 hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using DJGPP 2.0,  been tested successfully on the following platforms:
 Windows 95 using CygWin32 beta 17, OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c.  
    alpha-dec-osf4.0d
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows   alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start   alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
 the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).   hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
    hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00
    hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
    i386-unknown-freebsd5.1
    i686-pc-cygwin
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    mips-sgi-irix6.5
    mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
    powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
    powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
    sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
    sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
   
   Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
   Windows, and OS/2, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have a binary package.
   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/
   
 The latter site 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 (include with "include <file>" from within  *.fs    Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
         gforth)          gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
 *.fi    Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")  *.fi    Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
 *.fb    Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")  *.fb    Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
 *.i     C include files  *.i     C include files
Line 49  the rest of the documentation, so here's Line 64  the rest of the documentation, so here's
   
 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  oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
   
 Utilities:  Utilities:
 ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs  ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
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 tt.fs sokoban.fs  tt.fs sokoban.fs
   
 Test programs (for testing Forth systems):  Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
 tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs  test/*.fs
 checkans.fs wordsets.fs  
   
 Benchmarks:  Benchmarks:
 bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs  bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
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 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.  Submit bug
   reports through
   
   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
   
   (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
   -----
   Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   
   This file is part of Gforth.
   
   Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
   as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
   of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
   
   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.
   
   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

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