Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.48
1.48 ! anton 1: This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability. The main
! 2: thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation.
1.46 anton 3:
1.7 anton 4: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
1.8 anton 5: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
1.9 anton 6: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
1.43 anton 7: facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional
8: implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct
9: threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license
10: (see COPYING).
1.8 anton 11:
1.31 pazsan 12: Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to
13: port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested
14: successfully on the following platforms:
15:
1.48 ! anton 16: alpha-dec-osf4.0d
! 17: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
! 18: hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
! 19: hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
! 20: i386-unknown-freebsd4.7
! 21: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
1.43 anton 22: i686-pc-linux-gnu
1.48 ! anton 23: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
! 24: mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
! 25: mips-sgi-irix6.5
! 26: powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
! 27: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
1.22 anton 28:
1.37 anton 29: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
1.47 anton 30: Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after
31: installing it).
1.10 anton 32:
1.42 anton 33: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
34: and its mirrors or at
1.10 anton 35:
1.12 anton 36: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 37: or
1.12 anton 38: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 39:
1.42 anton 40: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14 anton 41: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 42:
1.7 anton 43: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
44: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
45: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
46: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
47: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 48:
49: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
50:
1.25 pazsan 51: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 52: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 53: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
54: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 55: *.i C include files
56: *.ds documenation source
57: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 58:
1.11 anton 59: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
60: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
61: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
62:
63: Add-ons:
64: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36 crook 65: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11 anton 66:
67: Utilities:
1.19 anton 68: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 69:
70: Games:
71: tt.fs sokoban.fs
72:
1.19 anton 73: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29 anton 74: test/*.fs
1.11 anton 75:
76: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 77: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 78:
79: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 80: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 pazsan 81:
1.30 anton 82: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
83: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41 anton 84: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
1.45 anton 85: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27 pazsan 86:
87: subscribe GForth
88:
1.47 anton 89: as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug
90: reports through
1.11 anton 91:
1.47 anton 92: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
93:
94: (whether you post them or not).
1.11 anton 95:
1.1 anton 96: - anton
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