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:
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