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   Buzz McCool to All   
   Re: Gforth manual PDF?   
   18 Feb 25 17:49:38   
   
   From: buzz_mccool@yahoo.com   
      
   >> On 2/15/25 09:53, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   > ...  I have now changed   
   > the Makefile to include the .pdf rather than the .ps files in the   
   > tarball, reflecting the loss of popularity of the .ps format.   
      
   Thank you Anton!   
      
   >> $ sudo apt install gforth-pdf   
   >   
   > I am also unaware of that package.  Where does it come from?   
      
   Looks like it comes from you:   
      
   $ apt show gforth-pdf   
   Package: gforth-pdf   
   Version: 0.7.9-20250211   
   Priority: extra   
   Section: programming   
   Source: gforth   
   Maintainer: Bernd Paysan    
   Installed-Size: 1,749 kB   
   Provides: gforth-doc   
   Download-Size: 1,745 kB   
   APT-Manual-Installed: yes   
   APT-Sources: https://net2o.de/debian stable/main all Packages   
   Description: GNU Forth   
     Gforth is the Forth implementation of the GNU project, providing all   
     features of the ANS Forth (Forth-94) and the Forth-2012 standards.   
     .   
     This is the documentation in PDF format   
      
   $ cd /usr/share/doc/gforth   
   $ ls -la   
   total 1500   
   drwxr-xr-x    2 root root    4096 Feb 17 10:15 .   
   drwxr-xr-x 2292 root root   81920 Feb 11 17:42 ..   
   -rw-r--r--    1 root root 1445762 Dec 26  2010 gforth.pdf.gz   
      
   $ sudo gunzip gforth.pdf.gz   
   [sudo] password for mccool:   
   $ ls -la   
   total 1548   
   drwxr-xr-x    2 root root    4096 Feb 18 17:41 .   
   drwxr-xr-x 2292 root root   81920 Feb 11 17:42 ..   
   -rw-r--r--    1 root root 1494604 Dec 26  2010 gforth.pdf   
   $ atril gforth.pd   
      
      
   The PDF is dated February 11th 2025   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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