1: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
2: language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
3: features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals
4: facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs
5: traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is
6: indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU
7: General Public license (see COPYING).
8:
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:
13: checking host system type... alpha-dec-osf4.0b
14: checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
15: checking host system type... hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
16: checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
17: checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
18: checking host system type... mips-dec-ultrix4.3
19: checking host system type... mips-sgi-irix6.2
20: checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
21: checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
22: checking host system type... sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
23:
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).
27:
28: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
29: or at
30:
31: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
32: or
33: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
34:
35: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
36: popular platforms.
37:
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.
43:
44: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
45:
46: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
47: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
48: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
49: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
50: *.i C include files
51: *.ds documenation source
52: *TAGS etags files
53:
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
60: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
61:
62: Utilities:
63: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
64:
65: Games:
66: tt.fs sokoban.fs
67:
68: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
69: test/*.fs
70:
71: Benchmarks:
72: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
73:
74: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
75: compat/*.fs other.fs
76:
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
79: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.com. To subscribe, send a mail to
80: MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.com with:
81:
82: subscribe GForth
83:
84: as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports
85: to bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu (whether you post them or not).
86:
87:
88: - anton
89: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
90: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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