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 This is the current state (alpha) of gforth. This is not a  Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
 distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature  language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
 enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is  features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a
   decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
   manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
   newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
   interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can
   also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter.  Gforth is
 distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).  distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
   
 You will probably find a Linux binary included in the package and the  Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X,
 configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another  OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems
 system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have  supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the
 problems).  following platforms:
   
 To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren   alpha-dec-osf4.0d
 system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss   alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
 a word, just grep for it in *.fs.   alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
    hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
 If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password   hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00
 (i.e., what you find in /etc/passwd). Tasks to be done can be found in   hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
 ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's   i386-unknown-freebsd5.1
 ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The   i686-pc-cygwin
 most important tasks IMO are the configuartion script, the missing ANS   i686-pc-linux-gnu
 Forth words (musts before the alpha release), speeding up the loading   mips-sgi-irix6.5
 of startup.fs, the documentation, adding readline and the foreign   mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
 language interface for C.   powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
    powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
    sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
    sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
   
   Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
   for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
   a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file.  If you received
   a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
   
   To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
   
   You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
   and its mirrors or at
   
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
   or
   ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
   
   The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
   popular platforms.
   
   If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
   in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
   it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
   doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
   the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
   
   On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
   
   *.fs    Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
           gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
   *.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
   *.ds    documenation source
   *TAGS   etags files
   
   A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
   not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
   the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
   
   Add-ons:
   code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
   oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
   
   Utilities:
   ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
   
   Games:
   tt.fs sokoban.fs
   
   Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
   test/*.fs
   
   Benchmarks:
   bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
   
   ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
   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 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
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
   -----
   Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004 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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