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 the
11: following platforms:
12: i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (libc5)
13: i686-pc-linux-gnu (libc6)
14: alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
15: alpha-dec-osf4.0b
16: mips-sgi-irix6.2
17: mips-dec-ultrix4.3
18: sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
19: sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
20: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
21: hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
22:
23: Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, Windows
24: 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you have problems. To start
25: the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
26:
27: You can find new versions of Gforth at prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors
28: or at
29:
30: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
31: or
32: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
33:
34: The latter site contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
35: popular platforms.
36:
37: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
38: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
39: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
40: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
41: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
42:
43: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
44:
45: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
46: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
47: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
48: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
49: *.i C include files
50: *.ds documenation source
51: *TAGS etags files
52:
53: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
54: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
55: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
56:
57: Add-ons:
58: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
59: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs
60:
61: Utilities:
62: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
63:
64: Games:
65: tt.fs sokoban.fs
66:
67: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
68: tester.fs coretest.fs postponetest.fs dbltest.fs
69: checkans.fs wordsets.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: There's a mailing list for things around Gforth that aren't bugs
78: (suggestions, discussions, etc.). To post, send your mail to
79: 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.
85:
86:
87: - anton
88: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
89: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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