PFORTH(1)

💖 PFORTH 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about pforth — an ANS Forth interpreter written in ANSI 'C'. yes, a whole Forth, in C, and it's giving main character energy fr fr 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pforth [options] files ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. iconic of the original devs honestly, they left us to write it ourselves 💅

pForth is an interpreter for the ANS Forth language. and not me being obsessed with the word sets it implements:

• Core
• Core Extensions
• File-Access
• Floating-Point
• Locals
• Programming-Tools
• Strings

that's a whole buffet, no cap 👑

and here's the slay: any files you specify on the command line will be processed as if typed. literally like you sat there and typed them yourself. super useful for scripting, bestie. automate your little heart out 🎀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d<filename.dic> — specify an alternate dictionary. by default, pforth.dic will be searched for first in the current directory, and then in /usr/lib/pforth. so like, it checks your room first, then the big shared closet 🌈
• -i — initialization mode, used for creating an initial dictionary. this is the "build the thing from scratch" era ✨
• -q — quiet mode. shhh. not a peep 🫶

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

there are some other pForth docs in /usr/doc/pforth, and a web page at http://www.softsynth.com/pforth/. go read, it's giving lore 📚

info on Forth in general is available from the Forth Interest Group web site at http://www.forth.org/. for the girlies who want the deep cuts 💜

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). ty for your service bestie 🫡

not me finishing a whole manpage. anyway, PFORTH(1) is part of the General Commands Manual — that's the vibe, that's the section, periodt. 💖✨