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 and DOS and should not be hard to port to other
10: systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on
11: Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS).
12:
13: Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail
14: gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems. To start
15: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
16:
17: You can find new versions of Gforth at
18:
19: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth
20: or
21: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth
22:
23: This site will also contain binary distributions of Gforth for some
24: popular platforms when it has proved stable.
25:
26: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
27: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
28: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
29: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
30: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
31:
32: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
33:
34: *.fs Forth stream source file
35: *.fi Forth image files
36: *.fb Forth blocks file
37: *.i C include files
38: *.ds documenation source
39: *TAGS etags files
40:
41: - anton
42: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
43: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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