Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.18
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
1.18 ! pazsan 10: the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
! 11: alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1,
! 12: sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see
! 13: INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20.
1.1 anton 14:
1.7 anton 15: Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
1.12 anton 16: bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
1.7 anton 17: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 18:
1.12 anton 19: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
20: or at
1.10 anton 21:
1.12 anton 22: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 23: or
1.12 anton 24: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 25:
1.14 anton 26: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
27: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 28:
1.7 anton 29: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
30: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
31: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
32: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
33: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 34:
35: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
36:
37: *.fs Forth stream source file
38: *.fi Forth image files
39: *.fb Forth blocks file
40: *.i C include files
41: *.ds documenation source
42: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 43:
1.11 anton 44: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
45: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
46: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
47:
48: Add-ons:
49: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
50:
51: Utilities:
52: etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
53:
54: Games:
55: tt.fs sokoban.fs
56:
57: Test programs:
58: tester.fs coretest.fs
59: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
60:
61: Benchmarks:
62: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
63:
64: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 65: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.11 anton 66:
67:
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1.6 anton 69: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
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