Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.46
1.46 ! anton 1: This snapshot is mainly intended as a Vmgen release. The Gforth part
! 2: has known bugs, and likely has portability problems (which Vmgen
! 3: inherits, of course) on anything but 386 and Alpha platforms. A
! 4: full-blown and portable release will be released Real Soon Now:-).
! 5:
1.7 anton 6: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
1.8 anton 7: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
1.9 anton 8: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
1.43 anton 9: facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
10: implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
11: threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
12: (see COPYING).
1.8 anton 13:
1.31 pazsan 14: Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
15: port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
16: successfully on the following platforms:
17:
1.43 anton 18: i686-pc-linux-gnu
1.22 anton 19:
1.37 anton 20: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
21: Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems.
22: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 23:
1.42 anton 24: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
25: and its mirrors or at
1.10 anton 26:
1.12 anton 27: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 28: or
1.12 anton 29: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 30:
1.42 anton 31: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14 anton 32: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 33:
1.7 anton 34: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
35: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
36: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
37: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
38: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 39:
40: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
41:
1.25 pazsan 42: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 43: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 44: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
45: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 46: *.i C include files
47: *.ds documenation source
48: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 49:
1.11 anton 50: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
51: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
52: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
53:
54: Add-ons:
55: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36 crook 56: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11 anton 57:
58: Utilities:
1.19 anton 59: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 60:
61: Games:
62: tt.fs sokoban.fs
63:
1.19 anton 64: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29 anton 65: test/*.fs
1.11 anton 66:
67: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 68: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 69:
70: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 71: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 pazsan 72:
1.30 anton 73: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
74: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41 anton 75: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
1.45 anton 76: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27 pazsan 77:
78: subscribe GForth
79:
1.30 anton 80: as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports
1.38 pazsan 81: to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not).
1.11 anton 82:
83:
1.1 anton 84: - anton
1.6 anton 85: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18 pazsan 86: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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