From: krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org   
      
   kForth-64 is particularly useful for beginners. It is also quite easy to   
   build from source under Debian and requires minimal extra packages.   
   Under Debian the following packages are required:   
      
      binutils   
      gcc   
      g++   
      make   
      libreadline8t64   
      libreadline-dev   
      
   You can "sudo apt-get install" those packages.   
      
   The User's Guide provides explicit instructions on building the   
   executables (kforth64 and kforth64-fast) from source under Linux. These   
   instructions amount to   
      
   0. unpacking the distribution   
   1. changing to the src/ directory in the distribution   
   2. typing "make"   
      
   The steps above are performed after installing required packages.   
      
   You should also set an environment variable, as described in the User's   
   Guide, to point to a copy of the forth-src directory from the   
   distribution. This is done in Debian by appending two lines to the   
   hidden file   
      
   .profile   
      
   in your home directory:   
      
   KFORTH_DIR=$HOME/   
   export KFORTH_DIR   
      
   After the edit, log out and log back in. Then do   
      
   $ echo $KFORTH_DIR   
      
   which should print the default directory for the forth files. This   
   allows the executables (kforth64 and kforth64-fast) to find files which   
   are INCLUDEd in your source.   
      
   The User's Guide also provides a gentle introduction to kForth in   
   Chapter 2. There are numerous source examples. You may download the   
   kForth-64 source as a zip file from github or as a .tar.gz file from   
   ccreweb.org:   
      
   https://github.com/mynenik/kForth-64   
   https://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth.html   
      
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