.TH PFORTH 1
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.SH NAME
pForth \- an ANS Forth interpreter written in ANSI 'C'
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pforth
.I "[options] files ..."
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B pForth
is an interpreter for the ANS Forth language.  It implements the Core,
Core Extensions, File-Access, Floating-Point, Locals, Programming-Tools,
and Strings word sets.
.PP
Any files specified on the command line will be processed as if typed.  This
is useful for scripting.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-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.
.TP
.B \-i
Initialization mode, used for creating an initial dictionary.
.TP
.B \-q
Quiet mode.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
There are some other pForth docs in /usr/doc/pforth, and a web page at
http://www.softsynth.com/pforth/.  
.PP
Information on Forth in general
is available from the Forth Interest Group web site at http://www.forth.org/.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).