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; Copyright (c) 1993-2001 by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees.
; Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by Olin Shivers and Brian D. Carlstrom.
; Copyright (c) 1999-2000 by Martin Gasbichler.
See file COPYING.
Please report bugs to scsh-bugs@zurich.ai.mit.edu, and include
the version number in your message.
Installation instructions in file INSTALL.
A user's guide is in file doc/user-guide.txt.
Recent changes are listed in file doc/news.txt.
Known bugs and things to do in the future are listed in doc/todo.txt.
Send mail to scheme-48-request@martigny.ai.mit.edu to be put on a
mailing list for announcements, discussion, bug reports, and bug
fixes.
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The Scheme 48 root directory is organized as follows (not all files are
listed here):
README this file
INSTALL installation instructions
COPYING copyright notice
configure configuration script
Makefile.in input to configure
doc/ some documentation
scheme48.man a Unix-style manual page
user-guide.txt general guide to using Scheme 48
todo.txt list of improvements we hope to make someday
news.txt list of improvements we have already made
module.ps description of Scheme 48's module system
big-scheme.txt extensions to Scheme
threads.txt multiprocessing
io.txt how the I/O system works
scheme/ scheme source files
packages.scm meta-module definitions
interfaces.scm system interface definitions
more-interfaces.scm system interface definitions
*-packages.scm module definitions
bcomp/ the byte-code compiler
vm/ virtual machine sources (written in Pre-Scheme)
rts/ run-time system sources
link/ static linker
env/ development environment modules (debugger, etc.)
big/ useful Scheme libraries and extensions ("Big Scheme")
alt/ portable implementations of some Scheme 48 features
opt/ optional code optimizer for the byte-code compiler
prescheme/ code for running the VM using Scheme 48
debug/ debugging utilities, tests, etc.
misc/ very miscellaneous things (e.g. AMB operator)
posix/ unfinished interface to POSIX system calls
ps-compiler/ Pre-Scheme -> C compiler
c/ c source files
sysdep.h.in input to configure
scheme48vm.c most of the VM (generated by Pre-Scheme compiler)
scheme48vm.h extern declarations for scheme48vm.c
scheme48heap.c storage management (generated by Pre-Scheme compiler)
scheme48heap.h extern declarations for scheme48heap.c
main.c entry point for the VM
prescheme.h part of the VM
extension.c default definition of vm_extension()
scheme48.h C declarations and macros for Scheme 48 data structures
old-scheme48.h old version, included for compatibility
c-mods.h minor additions to the C language
event.h header file for OS interface
io.h ditto
fd-io.h ditto
socket.c socket support
dynamo.c dynamic loading support
unix/ Unix-specific source files
posix/ C half of an unfinished interface to POSIX system calls
fake/ C files for insufficiently POSIX-compliant systems
build/ code for building the system
filenames.make included by Makefile, generated automatically
filenames.scm code for generating filenames.make
initial.image an image file containing a minimal Scheme system
initial.debug debugging database for same
initial.scm script for creating initial.image
build-usual-image script for creating scheme48.image
build-external-modules script for creating external-module initializer
emacs/ gnu emacs support