documented some configuration variables in configure.in

documentation changes

fixed some portability bugs in vmgen-ex and vmgen-ex2
updated copyright years

documentation changes
minor changes

removed some obsolete or non-source files

cleaned up PEEPHOLE configuration options (no longer used in C code)
related documentation changes in INSTALL

Force direct threading everywhere (indirect threading currentldoes not work).
make target "gforths" builds and copies all engines.

system.

renamed blocks.fs:flush-file into flush-blocks
fixed bell bug (now flushes the output)
documentation changes

bug fixes

added FORTHSIZES configuration variable
checked and fixed "make bindist" and "make clean"

Building in a dir different from the srcdir now works
a few bug fixes

added perform (primitive)
minor changes

WORDS and SEE now now respect the terminal size.
a lot of reordering in the Makefile, approaching the GNU standards.
factored NAME>STRING out of many words.
use AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST test in configure.in.
removed emitcounter (it was not used anyway).
SYSTEM now unpreps and repreps the terminal.
fixed byg in prims2x.fs.
added NEEDS, ?CSP, !CSP.
rewrote ALIAS?.

Direct threading is now the default on Alphas.

make DOS compile fool-proof (almost ;-)
Use autoconf macro to select GCC and abort if not available.

make mostlyclean virtualclean added
Cache-flushing now works on the Alpha (other minor changes there)
configure now uses gcc by default and passes its GCC variable to the Makefile
introduced sourcefilename and sourceline# (and used them in many places).

Tried to work around if clause in Makefile.in
Small bugfix in sokoban

Fixed bugs in SPARC CACHE_FLUSH

added make targets "bench" and "uninstall"

changes to loadfilename & co. to make savesystem transparent to
 assertions and ~~

savesystem now saves `included-files', too (so require does not start from
 scratch)
added/fixed stack effect and wordset documentation for many words in kernal.fs
some reformatting in kernal.fs
fixed some wordset info in primitives
added strsignal

installation now allows parallel versions (like gcc).
The version string is now in only one place

added primitives call-c and strerror
most primitives producing iors now produce error numbers derived from OS error
  numbers (EAGAIN and its kin)
.error now prints OS error messages for OS-derived error numbers.
primitives working with ferror now call clearerr
added a bit of documentation to glocals.fs to satisfy TeX
added definition of CC to Makefile.in again

added "make test", fixed "make dist"
fixed typo in kernal.fs

now demand-paged executables are made everywhere
mips.h now supports Irix

* New INSTALL file
* hash.fs didn't do a good job with 'cold.