--- gforth/README 2000/07/15 19:58:46 1.40 +++ gforth/README 2002/05/16 09:07:29 1.45 @@ -1,36 +1,29 @@ Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals -facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs -traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is -indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU -General Public license (see COPYING). +facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional +implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct +threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license +(see COPYING). Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the following platforms: -checking host system type... alpha-dec-osf4.0d -checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu -checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 -checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu -checking host system type... mips-dec-ultrix4.3 -checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu -checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 -checking host system type... sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 +i686-pc-linux-gnu Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). -You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors -or at +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 contains binary distributions of Gforth for some +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 @@ -74,8 +67,8 @@ 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.com. To subscribe, send a mail to -MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with: +mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to +gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with: subscribe GForth