Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.40

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: 
1.40    ! anton      13: checking host system type... alpha-dec-osf4.0d
1.34      anton      14: checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
                     15: checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
                     16: checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
                     17: checking host system type... mips-dec-ultrix4.3
1.40    ! anton      18: checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
1.34      anton      19: checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
1.40    ! anton      20: checking host system type... sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
1.22      anton      21: 
1.37      anton      22: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
                     23: Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
                     24: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10      anton      25: 
1.38      pazsan     26: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors
1.12      anton      27: or at
1.10      anton      28: 
1.12      anton      29: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      30: or
1.12      anton      31: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10      anton      32: 
1.14      anton      33: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
                     34: popular platforms.
1.1       anton      35: 
1.7       anton      36: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
                     37: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
                     38: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
                     39: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
                     40: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4       anton      41: 
                     42: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
                     43: 
1.25      pazsan     44: *.fs   Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26      anton      45:         gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25      pazsan     46: *.fi   Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
                     47: *.fb   Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4       anton      48: *.i    C include files
                     49: *.ds   documenation source
                     50: *TAGS  etags files
1.1       anton      51: 
1.11      anton      52: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
                     53: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
                     54: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
                     55: 
                     56: Add-ons:
                     57: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36      crook      58: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11      anton      59: 
                     60: Utilities:
1.19      anton      61: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11      anton      62: 
                     63: Games:
                     64: tt.fs sokoban.fs
                     65: 
1.19      anton      66: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29      anton      67: test/*.fs
1.11      anton      68: 
                     69: Benchmarks:
1.24      anton      70: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11      anton      71: 
                     72: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12      anton      73: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27      pazsan     74: 
1.30      anton      75: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
                     76: comp.lang.forth.  If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
                     77: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.com.  To subscribe, send a mail to
1.33      pazsan     78: MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with:
1.27      pazsan     79: 
                     80: subscribe GForth
                     81: 
1.30      anton      82: as the first and only line within the message body.  Send bug reports
1.38      pazsan     83: to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not).
1.11      anton      84: 
                     85: 
1.1       anton      86: - anton
1.6       anton      87: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18      pazsan     88: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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