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Re: Back to the Forth Virus

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Bernd recently (2026-05-31 20:16) wrote 
"That's the reason why I stopped maintaining the Win version.  It turned 
out that WSL was getting better at running native Linux Gforth than Cygwin 
was running Gforth compiled from source, so it became a waste of time."

If I understand corectly, your answer is gForth for linux running under 
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Jan Coombs
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 13:40:16 +0200
clv2020 <clv2020@vodafonemail.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> some years passed and now I would be interested to try Forth again.
> 
> First question: Which Forth is used nowadays for PCs under Windows11? I 
> tried Win32Forth, ciForth and the old volksForth in an Oracle 
> VirtualBox. (gForth, bigForth, VFX, Swiftforth are too big for me for 
> the moment). What would you recommend?
> 
> The second question: All Forth systems I tried showed critical virus 
> warnings from Google Chrome or Microsoft defender. Even an old 
> volksForth vf38141.arc - no modern archive utiliy could read this format 
> - was captured by Chrome. Win32Forth seems to be kidnapped on about each 
> start by the Defender. I'm not very amused to turn all IT security off 
> to use Forth. Is there a chance to solve this issue?
> 

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Back to the Forth Virus clv2020 <clv2020@vodafonemail.de> - 2026-06-08 13:40 +0200
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus Jan Coombs <jan4etsept@murray-microft.co.uk> - 2026-06-08 13:16 +0100
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 12:23 +0000
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-06-08 13:56 +0100
      Re: Back to the Forth Virus anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-08 15:40 +0000
        Re: Back to the Forth Virus Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-06-08 19:26 +0100
          Re: Back to the Forth Virus anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-08 20:06 +0000
        GForth reproducible builds (was Re: Back to the Forth Virus) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-02 14:40 -0300
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-06-09 01:01 +0200
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus clv2020 <clv2020@vodafonemail.de> - 2026-06-10 13:13 +0200
      Re: Back to the Forth Virus minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-06-11 10:01 +0200
        Re: Back to the Forth Virus anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-11 17:28 +0000
          Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-12 17:23 +0000
            Re: Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-12 17:52 +0000
              Re: Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-12 18:22 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 13:14 +1000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 06:33 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 22:20 +1000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 15:55 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-15 13:08 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-07-23 19:58 +0200
                Defining words in more than one step (was: Naming issues in create-does) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-13 06:46 +0000
                Re: Defining words in more than one step dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-14 12:29 +1000
              Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-12 19:59 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-13 10:25 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 15:30 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-13 17:30 +0000
              Re: Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) peter <peter.noreply@tin.it> - 2026-06-13 20:21 +0200
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-09 12:14 +1000
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-06-10 18:54 +0100
      Re: Back to the Forth Virus dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-11 16:32 +1000
        Re: Back to the Forth Virus "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-06-11 14:20 +0100
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> - 2026-06-09 10:22 +0000
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus clv2020 <clv2020@vodafonemail.de> - 2026-06-10 15:55 +0200
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-24 13:35 +0200

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