Annotation of gforth/README, revision 1.58
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
1.54 anton 3: features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a
4: decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
5: manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
1.56 anton 6: newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
7: interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can
8: also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is
9: distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
1.8 anton 10:
1.57 anton 11: Gforth runs under Unix, MS Windows, MacOS X, OS/2, and DOS and should
12: not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version
13: has been tested successfully on the following platforms:
1.31 pazsan 14:
1.55 anton 15: alpha-dec-osf4.0d
16: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
17: alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
18: hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu
19: hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00
20: hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
21: i386-unknown-freebsd5.1
22: i686-pc-cygwin
23: i686-pc-linux-gnu
24: mips-sgi-irix6.5
25: mipsel-pc-linux-gnu
26: powerpc-apple-darwin5.4
27: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
28: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
29: sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
1.22 anton 30:
1.58 ! anton 31: Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
! 32: for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
! 33: a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received
! 34: a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
! 35:
1.53 anton 36: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
1.10 anton 37:
1.42 anton 38: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
39: and its mirrors or at
1.10 anton 40:
1.12 anton 41: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 42: or
1.12 anton 43: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
1.10 anton 44:
1.42 anton 45: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
1.14 anton 46: popular platforms.
1.1 anton 47:
1.7 anton 48: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
49: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
50: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
51: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
52: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
1.4 anton 53:
54: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
55:
1.25 pazsan 56: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
1.26 anton 57: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
1.25 pazsan 58: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
59: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
1.4 anton 60: *.i C include files
61: *.ds documenation source
62: *TAGS etags files
1.1 anton 63:
1.11 anton 64: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
65: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
66: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
67:
68: Add-ons:
69: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
1.36 crook 70: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
1.11 anton 71:
72: Utilities:
1.19 anton 73: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
1.11 anton 74:
75: Games:
76: tt.fs sokoban.fs
77:
1.19 anton 78: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
1.29 anton 79: test/*.fs
1.11 anton 80:
81: Benchmarks:
1.24 anton 82: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
1.11 anton 83:
84: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
1.12 anton 85: compat/*.fs other.fs
1.27 pazsan 86:
1.30 anton 87: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
88: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
1.41 anton 89: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
1.45 anton 90: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with:
1.27 pazsan 91:
92: subscribe GForth
93:
1.47 anton 94: as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug
95: reports through
1.11 anton 96:
1.47 anton 97: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
98:
99: (whether you post them or not).
1.11 anton 100:
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1.6 anton 102: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
1.18 pazsan 103: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
1.49 anton 104: -----
1.50 anton 105: Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1.49 anton 106:
107: This file is part of Gforth.
108:
109: Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
110: modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
111: as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
112: of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
113:
114: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
115: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
116: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
117: GNU General Public License for more details.
118:
119: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
120: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
121: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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