Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice features such as a powerful locals facility, and even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested on Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC), Ultrix (MIPS) before release. Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words, the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: *.fs Forth stream source file *.fi Forth image files *.fb Forth blocks file *.i C include files *.ds documenation source *TAGS etags files - anton anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html