--- gforth/README 1994/11/24 16:55:14 1.2 +++ gforth/README 1995/02/09 17:49:52 1.5 @@ -3,22 +3,27 @@ distribution for the general public, sin enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). -You will probably find a Linux binary included in the package and the -configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another -system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have -problems). +Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail us if you have +problems. To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss a word, just grep for it in *.fs. -If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password -(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 -ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The -most important tasks IMO are the configuartion script, the missing ANS -Forth words (musts before the alpha release), speeding up the loading -of startup.fs, the documentation, adding readline and the foreign +If you want to work on gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found +in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, +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 +(musts before the alpha release), the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. +On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: + +*.fs Forth stream source file +*.fi Forth image files +*.fb Forth blocks file +*.i C include files +*.ds documenation source +*TAGS etags files + - anton