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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 the  port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
 following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,  successfully on the following platforms:
 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2, i586-unknown-linux,  
 hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using DJGPP 2.0,  i686-pc-linux-gnu
 Windows 95 using CygWin32 beta 18, OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c.  
   Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows  Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start  To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
 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
Line 49  the rest of the documentation, so here's Line 53  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
Line 58  Games: Line 62  Games:
 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
Line 67  bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs Line 70  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
   
 There's a mailing list for things around Gforth that aren't bugs  For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
 (suggestions, discussions, etc.). To post, send your mail to  comp.lang.forth.  If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
 GForth@ChaosSolutions.com. To subscribe, send a mail to  mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org.  To subscribe, send a mail to
 Mdaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with:  gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
   
 subscribe GForth  subscribe GForth
   
 as the first and only line within the message body.  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

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