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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. This represents the present state of the Gforth project
 enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is  whose goal is the development of a standard implementation model for
 distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).  ANS Forth. Gforth supports indirect threading on every machine
   supported by GCC, and direct threading on several popular
   architectures. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public
   license (see COPYING).
   
 You will probably find a Linux binary included in the package and the  Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
 configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another  gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems.  To start
 system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have  the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
 problems).  
   
 To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren  If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
 system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss  in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
 a word, just grep for it in *.fs.  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.
   
 If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password  On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
 (i.e., what you find in /etc/passwd). Tasks to be done can be found in  
 ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's  *.fs    Forth stream source file
 ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The  *.fi    Forth image files
 most important tasks IMO are the configuartion script, the missing ANS  *.fb    Forth blocks file
 Forth words (musts before the alpha release), speeding up the loading  *.i     C include files
 of startup.fs, the documentation, adding readline and the foreign  *.ds    documenation source
 language interface for C.  *TAGS   etags files
   
 - anton  - anton
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
   

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