This is the current state (pre-alpha) of gforth. This is not a distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). You will probably find a Linux binary included in the package and the configuration set up for Linux. If you want to install it on another system, read INSTALL and I wish you good luck (Mail us if you have problems). To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss a word, just grep for it in *.fs. If you want to work on gforth, mail me an encrypted UNIX password (i.e., what you find in /etc/passwd). 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 configuartion script, the missing ANS Forth words (musts before the alpha release), speeding up the loading of startup.fs, the documentation, adding readline and the foreign language interface for C. - anton