Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.53
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:
1.48 anton 13: alpha-dec-osf4.0d
1.51 anton 14: alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
1.48 anton 15: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
16: hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
17: hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
1.51 anton 18: i386-unknown-freebsd5.0
1.48 anton 19: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
1.51 anton 20: i686-pc-cygwin
1.43 anton 21: i686-pc-linux-gnu
1.48 anton 22: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
23: mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
24: mips-sgi-irix6.5
25: powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
26: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
1.51 anton 27: sparc-sun-solaris2.7
1.22 anton 28:
1.37 anton 29: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
1.53 ! anton 30: Windows 95, and OS/2, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have a binary package.
! 31: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after 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
1.6 anton 97: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18 pazsan 98: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
1.49 anton 99: -----
1.50 anton 100: Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1.49 anton 101:
102: This file is part of Gforth.
103:
104: Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
105: modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
106: as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
107: of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
108:
109: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
110: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
111: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
112: GNU General Public License for more details.
113:
114: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
115: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
116: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
FreeBSD-CVSweb <freebsd-cvsweb@FreeBSD.org>