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, backtraces, a
4: decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
5: manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
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).
10:
11: Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X,
12: OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems
13: supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the
14: following platforms:
15:
16: i386-unknown-linux-gnu
17: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
18: i386-apple-darwin9.4.0
19: x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0
20: ppc-apple-darwin9.4.0
21:
22: Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
23: for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
24: a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received
25: a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
26:
27: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
28:
29: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
30: and its mirrors or at
31:
32: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
33: or
34: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
35:
36: The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
37: popular platforms.
38:
39: If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
40: in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
41: it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
42: doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words,
43: the documentation and the foreign language interface for C.
44:
45: On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
46:
47: *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
48: gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
49: *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
50: *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
51: *.i C include files
52: *.ds documenation source
53: *TAGS etags files
54:
55: A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
56: not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
57: the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
58:
59: Add-ons:
60: code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
61: oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
62:
63: Utilities:
64: ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
65:
66: Games:
67: tt.fs sokoban.fs
68:
69: Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
70: test/*.fs
71:
72: Benchmarks:
73: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
74:
75: ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
76: compat/*.fs other.fs
77:
78: For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
79: comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
80: mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to
81: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with:
82:
83: subscribe GForth
84:
85: as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug
86: reports through
87:
88: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
89:
90: (whether you post them or not).
91:
92: - anton
93: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
94: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
95: -----
96: Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
97:
98: This file is part of Gforth.
99:
100: Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
101: modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
102: as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
103: of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
104:
105: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
106: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
107: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
108: GNU General Public License for more details.
109:
110: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
111: along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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