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 This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability.  The main  
 thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation.  
   
 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, backtraces, a
 facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional  decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
 implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct  manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
 threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license  newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
 (see COPYING).  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).
   
 Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to  Gforth runs under Unix, Win32, MacOS X, OS/2, and DOS and should not
 port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested  be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has
 successfully on the following platforms:  been tested successfully on the following platforms:
   
 alpha-dec-osf4.0d   alpha-dec-osf4.0d
 alpha-unknown-linux-gnu   alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
 hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu   alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
 hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11   hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
 i386-unknown-freebsd4.7   hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00
 i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1   hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
 i686-pc-linux-gnu   i386-unknown-freebsd5.1
 mips-dec-ultrix4.3   i686-pc-cygwin
 mipsel-pc-linux-gnu   i686-pc-linux-gnu
 mips-sgi-irix6.5   mips-sgi-irix6.5
 powerpc-apple-darwin5.4   mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu   powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
    powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
    sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
    sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
   
 Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,  Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
 Windows 95, and OS/2.  To start the system, just say `gforth' (after  Windows, and OS/2, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have a binary package.
 installing it).  To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
   
 You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/  You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
 and its mirrors or at  and its mirrors or at

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