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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 and a powerful locals |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs |
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traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is |
You will probably find a Linux binary included in the package and the |
indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU |
configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another |
General Public license (see COPYING). |
system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have |
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problems). |
Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other |
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systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on |
To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren |
the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux, |
system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss |
alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, |
a word, just grep for it in *.fs. |
sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see |
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INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using |
If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password |
DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help |
(i.e., what you find in /etc/passwd). Tasks to be done can be found in |
to finish compilation. |
ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's |
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ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The |
Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and |
most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words (musts before |
OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start |
the alpha release), the documentation, adding readline and the foreign |
the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
language interface for C. |
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You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors |
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or at |
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ |
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ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
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The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some |
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popular platforms. |
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If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
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in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
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it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are |
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doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words, |
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the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. |
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On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: |
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*.fs Forth stream source file |
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*.fi Forth image files |
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*.fb Forth blocks file |
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*.i C include files |
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*.ds documenation source |
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*TAGS etags files |
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A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are |
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not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in |
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the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview: |
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Add-ons: |
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code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs |
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oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs |
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Utilities: |
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ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
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Games: |
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tt.fs sokoban.fs |
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Test programs (for testing Forth systems): |
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tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs |
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checkans.fs wordsets.fs |
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Benchmarks: |
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bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs |
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ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
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compat/*.fs other.fs |
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- anton |
- anton |
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |