Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.10

1.7       anton       1: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
1.8       anton       2: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
1.9       anton       3: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
                      4: facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs
                      5: traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is
                      6: indirect or direct threaded.  Gforth is distributed under the GNU
                      7: General Public license (see COPYING).
1.8       anton       8: 
                      9: Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
1.10    ! anton      10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
        !            11: Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS).
1.1       anton      12: 
1.7       anton      13: Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
                     14: gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems.  To start
                     15: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10    ! anton      16: 
        !            17: You can find new versions of Gforth at
        !            18: 
        !            19: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth
        !            20: or
        !            21: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth
        !            22: 
        !            23: This site will also contain binary distributions of Gforth for some
        !            24: popular platforms when it has proved stable.
1.1       anton      25: 
1.7       anton      26: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     27: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     28: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     29: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     30: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      31: 
                     32: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     33: 
                     34: *.fs   Forth stream source file
                     35: *.fi   Forth image files
                     36: *.fb   Forth blocks file
                     37: *.i    C include files
                     38: *.ds   documenation source
                     39: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      40: 
                     41: - anton
1.6       anton      42: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
                     43: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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