13 Image Files

An image file is a file containing an image of the Forth dictionary, i.e., compiled Forth code and data residing in the dictionary. By convention, we use the extension .fi for image files.

• Image Licensing Issues: Distribution terms for images.
• Image File Background: Why have image files?
• Non-Relocatable Image Files: don't always work.
• Data-Relocatable Image Files: are better.
• Fully Relocatable Image Files: better yet.
• Stack and Dictionary Sizes: Setting the default sizes for an image.
• Running Image Files: gforth -i file or file.
• Modifying the Startup Sequence: and turnkey applications.