PFE - The Portable Forth Environment

PFE Homepage at SourceForge

The Portable Forth Environment (PFE) is based on the ANSI Standard for Forth. The PFE has been created by Dirk-Uwe Zoller and had been maintained up to the 0.9.x versions (1993-1995). Tektronix has adopted the PFE package in 1998 and made a number of extensions. It is now fully multithreaded and it features a module system. You can load additional C objects at runtime to extend the Forth dictionary. It is best targeted for embedded environments since you can easily exchange the terminal driver and the initilization routines.

Documentation

The standard documenation is automatically generated and benefits from comments directly integrated in the PFE sources. The Draft Proposal ANS for Forth, also in HTML format, and a popular Forth introduction by Hans Bezemer, released under the GNU Free Documentation License, in PDF, are added.

Author

Guido Draheim has been working on PFE at Tektronix Berlin GmbH in the last years. The released version is now maintained by him on a sparetime basis. You can contact him by e-mail, <guidod@gmx.de>