Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.20
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
1.19 anton 10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
1.18 pazsan 11: the following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, i586-unknown-linux,
12: alpha-dec-osf3.2, mips-dec-ultrix4.3, sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1,
13: sparc-unknown-netbsd1.2 (configured with ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0, see
1.20 ! pazsan 14: INSTALL), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using
! 15: DJGPP 2.0, and OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c, the latter with manual help
! 16: to finish compilation.
1.1 anton 17:
1.20 ! pazsan 18: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS and
! 19: OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
1.7 anton 20: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 21:
1.12 anton 22: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
23: or at
1.10 anton 24:
1.12 anton 25: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 26: or
1.12 anton 27: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 28:
1.14 anton 29: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
30: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 31:
1.7 anton 32: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
33: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
34: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
35: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
36: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 37:
38: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
39:
40: *.fs Forth stream source file
41: *.fi Forth image files
42: *.fb Forth blocks file
43: *.i C include files
44: *.ds documenation source
45: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 46:
1.11 anton 47: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
48: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
49: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
50:
51: Add-ons:
52: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19 anton 53: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11 anton 54:
55: Utilities:
1.19 anton 56: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 57:
58: Games:
59: tt.fs sokoban.fs
60:
1.19 anton 61: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
62: tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
1.11 anton 63: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
64:
65: Benchmarks:
66: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs sieve.fs
67:
68: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 69: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.11 anton 70:
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