Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.43
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
1.43 ! anton 4: facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
! 5: implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
! 6: threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
! 7: (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:
1.43 ! anton 13: alpha-dec-osf4.0d
! 14: alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
! 15: hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
! 16: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
! 17: i686-pc-linux-gnu
! 18: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
! 19: mips-sgi-irix6.2
! 20: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
! 21: sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
! 22: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
1.22 anton 23:
1.37 anton 24: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
25: Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
26: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 27:
1.42 anton 28: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
29: and its mirrors or at
1.10 anton 30:
1.12 anton 31: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 32: or
1.12 anton 33: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 34:
1.42 anton 35: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14 anton 36: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 37:
1.7 anton 38: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
39: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
40: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
41: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
42: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 43:
44: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
45:
1.25 pazsan 46: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 47: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 48: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
49: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 50: *.i C include files
51: *.ds documenation source
52: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 53:
1.11 anton 54: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
55: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
56: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
57:
58: Add-ons:
59: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36 crook 60: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11 anton 61:
62: Utilities:
1.19 anton 63: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 64:
65: Games:
66: tt.fs sokoban.fs
67:
1.19 anton 68: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29 anton 69: test/*.fs
1.11 anton 70:
71: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 72: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 73:
74: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 75: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 pazsan 76:
1.30 anton 77: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
78: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41 anton 79: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
80: MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27 pazsan 81:
82: subscribe GForth
83:
1.30 anton 84: as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports
1.38 pazsan 85: to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not).
1.11 anton 86:
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