Jim Blandy reported some small problems with the meta-arg Scheme parser.

Error-log

@@ -142,3 +142,7 @@ Alan Bawden has reported a lot of bugs 4/97:
     crashing the system.
 
     set-file-group had bugs (uid/gid args were transposed in the syscall)
+
+meta.scm was blowing up on illegal numeric escapes like \3Q in meta-arg lines.
+    Was also not recognizing the whole set of C escapes (e.g. \n, \a, \f).
+    Jim Blandy reported the bug, with fixes for the second problem, 4/97.

doc/scsh-manual/THANKS

@@ -26,3 +26,6 @@ euler@lavielle.COM (Lutz Euler) 2/24/97
 
 Alan Bawden 4/97
     Lots of good bug reports and fixes.
+
+Jim Blandy 4/97
+    Fixes for meta.scm

doc/scsh-release-0.5

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ There is a new command-line switch,
     -sfd <num>
 which causes scsh to read its script from file descriptor <num>.
 
-Scheme 48's floating point support was inadvertently omitted from the last
+Scheme 48's floating-point support was inadvertently omitted from the last
 release. It has been reinstated.
 
 The regular expression system has been sped up.  Regular-expression
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ compilation is now provided, and the AWK macro has been rewritten to
 pre-compile regexps used in rules outside the loop.  It is still, however,
 slower than it should be.
 
-We have introduced two new procedures for our Perl fans, for performing
-regexp-directed string substitutions:
+We have introduced two new procedures for performing regexp-directed
+string substitutions:
     regexp-substitute
     regexp-substitute/global
-The design is not what you might expect, but they are quite powerful
-and efficient.
+The design differs from what one finds in systems such as sed or perl,
+and is quite powerful.
 
 Execing programs should be faster in this release, since we now use the
 CLOEXEC status bit to get automatic closing of unrevealed port file
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ descriptors.
 --------
 
 We received many bug reports, improvements, fixes and suggestions from scsh
-users. In particular, we'd like to thank Alan Bawden, Michael Becker, Jin
-Choi, Sean Doran, Lutz Euler, Kevin Esler, Rolf-Thomas Happe, David Hull,
-Shriram Krishnamurthi, Tod Olson, Michel Schinz, Bill Sommerfeld, Mike
-Sperber, and Victor Zandy for their contributions to this release.
+users. In particular, we'd like to thank Alan Bawden, Michael Becker, Jim
+Blandy, Jin Choi, Sean Doran, Lutz Euler, Kevin Esler, Rolf-Thomas Happe,
+David Hull, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Tod Olson, Michel Schinz, Bill Sommerfeld,
+Mike Sperber, and Victor Zandy for their contributions to this release.
 
 Thanks, guys; we really appreciate the feedback.
 

scsh/meta-arg.scm

@@ -94,7 +94,13 @@
 
 (define (read-backslash-sequence port)
   (let ((c1 (read-char port))
-	(eof-lose (lambda () (error "Premature EOF within backslash-sequence in meta-arg argument line"))))
+	(eof-lose (lambda () (error "Premature EOF within backslash-sequence in meta-arg argument line")))
+	(octet->int (lambda (c)
+		      (cond ((eof-object? c) (eof-lose))
+			    ((char-set-contains? char-set:octal-digits c)
+			     (- (char->ascii c) (char->ascii #\0)))
+			    (else (error "Non-octal-digit in \\nnn escape sequence in meta-arg argument line." c))))))
+
     (cond ((eof-object? c1) (eof-lose))
 
 	  ;; This would be better handled by a char-map abstraction.
@@ -102,26 +108,23 @@
 	  ((char=? c1 #\r) carriage-return)
 	  ((char=? c1 #\t) tab)
 	  ((char=? c1 #\b) backspace)
-	  ;; ...whatever. Look up complete table.
+	  ((char=? c1 #\a) alert)
+	  ((char=? c1 #\f) form-feed)
+	  ((char=? c1 #\v) vertical-tab)
 
 	  ;; \, space, tab, newline.
 	  ((char-set-contains? char-set:simple-knockdown c1) c1)
 
 	  ((char-set-contains? char-set:octal-digits c1)
-	   (let ((c2 (read-char port)))
-	     (if (eof-object? c2) (eof-lose)
-		 (let ((c3 (read-char port)))
-		   (if (eof-object? c3) (eof-lose)
-		       (ascii->char (+ (octet->int c3)
-				       (* 8 (+ (octet->int c2)
-					       (* 8 (octet->int c1)))))))))))
+	   (let* ((o64 (octet->int c1))
+		  (o8  (octet->int (read-char port)))
+		  (o1  (octet->int (read-char port))))
+	     (ascii->char (+ o1 (* 8 (+ o8 (* 8 o64)))))))
 		   
 	  
 	  (else (error "Illegal \\ escape sequence in meta-arg argument line."
 		       c1)))))
 
-(define (octet->int c) (- (char->ascii c) (char->ascii #\0)))
-
 (define char-set:octal-digits (char-set #\0 #\1 #\2 #\3 #\4 #\5 #\6 #\7))
 
 (define char-set:simple-knockdown (string->char-set "\\ \n\t"))
@@ -130,3 +133,6 @@
 (define tab (ascii->char 9))
 (define carriage-return (ascii->char 13))
 (define backspace (ascii->char 8))
+(define alert (ascii->char 7))
+(define form-feed (ascii->char 12))
+(define vertical-tab (ascii->char 11))