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    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: 
   21: Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
   22: for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
   23: a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file.  If you received
   24: a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
   25: 
   26: To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
   27: 
   28: You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
   29: and its mirrors 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 also 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.org.  To subscribe, send a mail to
   80: gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with:
   81: 
   82: subscribe GForth
   83: 
   84: as the first and only line within the message body.  Submit bug
   85: reports through
   86: 
   87: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
   88: 
   89: (whether you post them or not).
   90: 
   91: - anton
   92: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
   93: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
   94: -----
   95: Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   96: 
   97: This file is part of Gforth.
   98: 
   99: Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  100: modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  101: as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
  102: of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  103: 
  104: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  105: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  106: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
  107: GNU General Public License for more details.
  108: 
  109: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  110: along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.