CIFORTH CUSTOMIZATION FOR LINUX

COPYRIGHT (c) 2000-2002 Albert van der Horst , THE NETHERLANDS
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.


Forth is a tool for evolutionary programming. This is the
binary distribution of lina 4.0, a stable release. Without notice
it applies to all updates 4.0.#.
lina is
the Linux native (= c-less) version of ciforth (common Intel
Forth), an interpret environment and compiler for Forth. It is
(large and by) compliant with the ISO Forth standard; the CORE
wordset is fully implemented. The small, classic, indirect
threaded kernel contains the essential, i.a. file access and
exceptions. Its power is multiplied by an extensive source
library, that add i.a. a decompiler and integrated 386
assembler. It is fully self contained; if you want to
understand a compiler in all details, this is your best, if not
only, choice. ciforth sports the highest documentation to
binary proportion in the EDP industry, barring m4 on Coherent.

Unpack in the directory where you want to use it by :
    tar fxz lina-4.0.0.gz

Now you can use lina by :
    lina

Print the manual (150 pages) by :
    lpr ci86.lina.ps
or view it:
    gv ci86.lina.ps

View the same information by :
    info -f ci86.lina.info

Viewing the file ``ci86.lina.html'' with a html viewer,
gives a reference extract but with more cross links.

For customized installation see the -i option.

For system wide installation the following is recommended:
    su
    ./lina -g 60 lina+
    ./lina+ -i /usr/bin/lina /usr/lib/forth.lab
    chmod 755 /usr/bin/lina
    chmod 644 /usr/lib/forth.lab

    cp ci86.lina.* /usr/share/doc/lina
    cp lina.1      /usr/share/man/man1

On info :
The info system for program documentation actively discourages
adding documentation to a system, by hiding how a .info file
can be installed. The nice folks of Debian have added a separate
program install-info , but without that you are out of luck.
Your only option is to do
   info -f <absolute-path>

$Id: README.lina,v 4.1.2.2 2004/11/27 03:27:48 albert Exp $
