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- January, 1992
-
- This is a port of the Haskell-like functional programming language Gofer
- by Mark P Jones for the Commodore Amiga. It should run on any Amiga with
- about 2Mb of ram (or more), though it will run the smoothest under
- Kickstart 2.0 with ARexx. Currently, it must be run from the Shell
- (or CLI). To get started quickly, try entering the gofer/ directory and
- typing something like (using KS 2.0):
-
- 3.> Execute start_gofer_amiga
- [ gofer banner and messages is printed ]
- ? :l demos/calendar
- [ gofer loads the calendar demo ]
- ? calendar 1992
- [ gofer prints out a nice calendar ]
- ? :q
- [ gofer exits ]
- 3.>
-
-
- The following environment variables are used:
-
- GOFER Set to full path for prelude (usually '...gofer/prelude')
- EDITOR Editor to use (default 'Ed').
- EDITLINE Command line to execute to start editor at a specified line
- number, started as 'editcommand LINE %d FILE %s' (defualt
- is Arexx-script that starts Ed).
- SHELL Command for starting a new shell, default 'NewShell'.
-
-
- I would recommend that you set the stack to at least 10000. Use a command
- like
-
- 3.> stack 10000
-
- from the shell before using gofer.
-
-
- This document describes only things that are different in the Amiga
- version from the Unix version. Read the Readme's and doc files for
- how to get started with gofer.
-
-
-
- Notes on compiling the program.
-
- The program should compile with Lattice/SAS C v5.10b. Other compilers
- will probably require small changes, notably the makefile (use the large
- code model), and the error handling (Lattice/SAS hasn't got an ANSI
- atexit() function, so I've used onexit() instead). Also, the Lattice
- function chkufb() is used to obtain the AmigaDOS filehandle of stdin
- for putting the console in RAW mode.
-
- Note that I had to switch off the Optimizer on some of the modules in
- order to get the garbage collection to work. Also note that I have been
- unable to translate the parser file parser.y with either Berkeley yacc or
- bison. Instead, the file parser.c (which is the result of running yacc on
- grammar.y under Unix) is provided.
-
-
- - Kristian.
-
-
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-
-
- If you have any comments or questions, you should be able to reach me
- with e-mail to
-
- bombadil@freja.diku.dk (try bombadil@diku.dk if mail bounces)
-
- or you could write me at
-
- Kristian Nielsen,
- Groenjordskollegiet room 6111,
- Groenjordsvej,
- 2300 Koebenhavn S,
- Denmark
-