Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nic.hookup.net!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!pitt!willett!ForthFAQ
From: ForthFAQ@willett.pgh.pa.us (FAQ account for comp.lang.forth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.answers,news.answers
Subject: Forth FAQ: FAQ Overview.  (l/m 07.Nov.93)
Message-ID: <4819.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 15 Dec 93 01:39:15 GMT
Expires: Wed, 22 Dec 93 23:59:59 EDT
Followup-To: poster
Lines: 129
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.lang.forth:14684 comp.answers:3015 news.answers:15812

Archive-name: ForthFaq/Overview
Last-modified: 07.Nov.93
Version: 1.9

  
  Hello!


  Welcome to the series of Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) Answers
  messages for comp.lang.forth.  These messages are designed to
  provide the answers to commonly asked questions about Forth.

  This message is the general overview for the rest of the FAQ messages.


  Disclaimer(s):
      This organization of the FAQ messages is by no means final.  If you
      have any additions, comments, complaints, corrections, suggestions,
      or ..., please send them to one of the addresses at the end of this
      message.  These messages were created by editting the previous
      version of the FAQ messages, with additional material culled from
      the ForthNet.  Please let me know if I have failed to attribute,
      or have incorrectly used or attributted, any material.

  
  These messages are archived at the anonymous FTP site:
	    rtfm.mit.edu
  in the directory: 
	    /pub/usenet/comp.lang.forth


  For answers to general questions about the Internet or Usenet,
  consult the messages that are periodicly posted to the newsgroups:
  	    news.announce.newusers
  	    news.newusers.questions
  	    news.announce.important


  Below is a list of the currently posted messages, showing the
  subject line and questions list for each one.  These messages,
  including this one, are posted regularly on or near the 7th and the
  22nd of each month, to comp.lang.forth, comp.answers and news.answers.


		FAQ Message Subject Lines and Question Lists:
		---------------------------------------------

  Forth FAQ: What is Forth?
    What is Forth?

  Forth FAQ: Organizations and Publications.
    What organizations are dedicated to Forth? (and how to contact them)
    What other publications carry information, etc. about Forth?
    What other Internet/UseNet Forth mailing lists are there?

  Forth FAQ: ANS Forth Standard Info.
    What is the status of ANS Forth?

  Forth FAQ: General Internet info.
    How can I find an anonymous FTP or email server that has "foo"? (Or, just
    Where can I find programs for Unix that can read .ARC, .ZOO and .ZIP files?

  Forth FAQ: ForthNet: What and how?
    What is ForthNet?
    What are the restrictions and guidelines for ForthNet messages?
    How do I send email to some one who has posted a message on ForthNet?
    How do I access ForthNet?

  Forth FAQ: Libraries: Where and how?
    What Forth libraries are available, and how can I access them?
    Getting Forth files directly from The Forth Interest Group:
    Getting Forth files via FTP:
    How do I use FTP?
    Getting Forth files via EMail:
    Getting Forth files via an EMail interface to FTP:
    Getting Forth files via EMail to FNEAS:

  Forth FAQ: Forth Implementations.
    [1] Forth for the 8051/8031
    [2] Forth for a PC
    [3] 32-bit protected-mode PC Forth
    [4] Forth for Windows (3.1/NT)
    [5] Forth for OS/2
    [6] Forth for the 68HC16
    [7] Forth written in C
    [8] Forth for UNIX
    [9] Forth for a Sun
    [10] Forth for a MAC
    [11] Forth for an Amiga
    [12] Forth for an Atari ST
    [13] Forth for a Transputer
    [14] Forth for a Tandy TRS-80
    [15] Forth for the Apple II
    [16] Forth for 68000 boards (including cross development from PCs)
    [17] Forth for (miscellaneous) DSP chips
    [18] Forth for VMS
    [19] Forth for playing with Music
    [20] PD/ShareWare Forth for the BrouHaHa-7245
    [21] Forth that isn't necessarily Forth
    [22] Forth Vendors/Authors

  Forth FAQ: Programmable BBS Information.

  Forth FAQ: CASE,OF,ENDOF,ENDCASE.

  Forth FAQ: Forth In Print.
    "Starting FORTH" - Leo Brodie
    "Thinking FORTH" - Leo Brodie
    "FORTH: A TEXT AND REFERENCE" - Mahlon G. Kelly and N. Spies
    "Stack Computers: The New Wave" - Phillip Koopman
    "Threaded Interpretive Languages" - R.G. Loeliger
    "Scientific FORTH: a modern language for scientific computing"
    - Julian V. Noble
    "Object-oriented Forth - Implementation of Data Structures"
    - Dick Pountain
    "Write Your Own Programming Language Using C++" - Norman Smith
    "The Complete Forth" - A. Winfield
    "Forth: The New Model - A Programmer's Handbook" - Jack Woehr

  Forth FAQ: Applications done with Forth.
    If Forth has been around for 20+ years, what has it been used for?

---
If you have any questions about ForthNet/comp.lang.forth or any information
to add/delete or correct in this message or any suggestions on formatting or
presentation, please contact Doug Philips at one of the following addresses:
		  Internet: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us
		  Usenet:   ...!uunet!willett.pgh.pa.us!dwp
		  GEnie:    D.PHILIPS3