Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.24

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
1.23      pazsan     10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the
                     11: following platforms: i486-unknown-linuxaout, mips-dec-ultrix4.3,
                     12: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4, alpha-dec-osf3.2, i586-unknown-linux,
                     13: hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05, hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, Windows 95 using DJGPP 2.0,
                     14: Windows 95 using CygWin32 beta 17, OS/2 3.0 using EMX 0.9c.
1.22      anton      15: 
1.23      pazsan     16: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows
                     17: 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start
1.7       anton      18: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      19: 
1.12      anton      20: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
                     21: or at
1.10      anton      22: 
1.12      anton      23: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      24: or
1.12      anton      25: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      26: 
1.14      anton      27: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
                     28: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      29: 
1.7       anton      30: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     31: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     32: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     33: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     34: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      35: 
                     36: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     37: 
                     38: *.fs   Forth stream source file
                     39: *.fi   Forth image files
                     40: *.fb   Forth blocks file
                     41: *.i    C include files
                     42: *.ds   documenation source
                     43: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      44: 
1.11      anton      45: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     46: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     47: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     48: 
                     49: Add-ons:
                     50: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19      anton      51: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11      anton      52: 
                     53: Utilities:
1.19      anton      54: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      55: 
                     56: Games:
                     57: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     58: 
1.19      anton      59: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
                     60: tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
1.11      anton      61: checkans.fs wordsets.fs
                     62: 
                     63: Benchmarks:
1.24    ! anton      64: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11      anton      65: 
                     66: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      67: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.11      anton      68: 
                     69: 
1.1       anton      70: - anton
1.6       anton      71: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     72: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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