File extension fb information

File extension FB refers to a backup file. This file is developed by the (FBX.EXE) FastBack Express of Novell’s (DR) Dos. This file extension also refers to the Blocks file of Gforth Forth. This file is developed by the Free Software Foundation, inc. it is described as a portable and fast implementation of the Forth Language by ANS. Gforth is described as working well with the editor by Emacs, while offering great features for instance input history and completion, a manual, a locals facility that is powerful, and a decompiler.
Other features of this file are backtraces, input completion and input history. Gforth combines older implementation techniques and newer techniques for performance and portability. Its inner interpreter is threaded direct with a number of optimizations, but users can choose a traditionally styled interpreter that is indirect threaded. File extension FB is distributed underneath the General Public GNU Licence. Gforth runs on BSD, GNU and other similar systems, as well as DOS, Mac OS/2, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. This file can be installed from source, or for DOS, INSTALL.DOS.