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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 performance: its
 (see COPYING).  inner innerpreter 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, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
 port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested  port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
 successfully on the following platforms:  successfully on the following platforms:
   
 alpha-dec-osf4.0d  alpha-dec-osf4.0d
   alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
 alpha-unknown-linux-gnu  alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
 hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu  hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
 hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11  hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
 i386-unknown-freebsd4.7  i386-unknown-freebsd5.0
 i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1  i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
   i686-pc-cygwin
 i686-pc-linux-gnu  i686-pc-linux-gnu
 mips-dec-ultrix4.3  mips-dec-ultrix4.3
 mipsel-pc-linux-gnu  mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
 mips-sgi-irix6.5  mips-sgi-irix6.5
 powerpc-apple-darwin5.4  powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu  powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
   sparc-sun-solaris2.7
   
 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 95, 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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