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From: Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Gforth manual PDF?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:49:38 -0800
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>> 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 <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
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