Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.33

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: 
1.31      pazsan      9: Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
                     10: port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
                     11: successfully on the following platforms:
                     12: 
                     13: i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (libc5)
1.28      anton      14: i686-pc-linux-gnu (libc6)
                     15: alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
                     16: alpha-dec-osf4.0b
                     17: mips-sgi-irix6.2
                     18: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
                     19: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
                     20: sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
                     21: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
                     22: hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
1.31      pazsan     23: i386-pc-cygwin32 (CygWin32 b18, Win95)
                     24: i386-pc-djgpp (DGJPP 2.0, MS-DOS 7.0 under Win95)
                     25: i386-pc-os2 (OS/2 3.0, EMX 0.9c)
1.22      anton      26: 
1.23      pazsan     27: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows
                     28: 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems.  To start
1.7       anton      29: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      30: 
1.12      anton      31: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
                     32: or at
1.10      anton      33: 
1.12      anton      34: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      35: or
1.12      anton      36: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      37: 
1.14      anton      38: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
                     39: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      40: 
1.7       anton      41: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     42: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     43: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     44: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     45: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      46: 
                     47: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     48: 
1.25      pazsan     49: *.fs   Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26      anton      50:         gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25      pazsan     51: *.fi   Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
                     52: *.fb   Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4       anton      53: *.i    C include files
                     54: *.ds   documenation source
                     55: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      56: 
1.11      anton      57: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     58: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     59: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     60: 
                     61: Add-ons:
                     62: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.19      anton      63: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
1.11      anton      64: 
                     65: Utilities:
1.19      anton      66: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      67: 
                     68: Games:
                     69: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     70: 
1.19      anton      71: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29      anton      72: test/*.fs
1.11      anton      73: 
                     74: Benchmarks:
1.24      anton      75: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11      anton      76: 
                     77: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      78: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27      pazsan     79: 
1.30      anton      80: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
                     81: comp.lang.forth.  If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
                     82: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.com.  To subscribe, send a mail to
1.33    ! pazsan     83: MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with:
1.27      pazsan     84: 
                     85: subscribe GForth
                     86: 
1.30      anton      87: as the first and only line within the message body.  Send bug reports
                     88: to bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu (whether you post them or not).
1.11      anton      89: 
                     90: 
1.1       anton      91: - anton
1.6       anton      92: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     93: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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