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+This is the Scheme Untergrund Networking Package.
+
+The Scheme Untergrund Networking Package (SUnet, for short) is a
+collection of applications and libraries for Internet hacking in
+Scheme.  It contains over 9000 lines of high-quality Scheme code which
+runs under Scsh, the Scheme shell.  SUnet which makes extensive use of
+Scsh's facilities for multi-threaded systems programming und Unix.
+
+SUnet includes the following components:
+
+* The SUnet Web server
+    This is a highly configurable HTTP 1.0 server in Scheme.
+    The server is accompanied some libraries which may also
+    be used separately:
+
+    * URI and URL parsers and unparsers
+    * a library for writing CGI scripts in Scheme
+    * server extensions for interfacing to CGI scripts
+    * server extensions for uploading Scheme code
+    * simple structured HTML output library
+
+* The SUnet ftp server
+    This is a complete anonymous ftp server in Scheme.
+
+* ftp client library
+    This library allows you to access ftp servers programmatically.
+
+* Netrc library
+    This library parses authentication information contained in ~/.netrc.
+
+* SMTP client library
+    This library allows you to forge mail from the comfort of your own
+    Scheme process.
+
+* POP3 client library
+    This library allows you to access your POP3 mailbox from inside Scsh.
+
+* RFC822 header library
+    This library parses email-style headers.
+
+* Daytime and Time protocol client libraries
+    These libraries lets you find out what time it is without paying for a
+    Rolex.
+
+* DNS client library
+    This is a complete, multithreaded DNS library.
+
+* An ls clone
+    This library displays Unix-style directory listings without running ls.
+
+The SUnet code is available from
+
+http://www.scsh.net/sunet/
+
+To run the code, you need version 0.6.4 or later of Scsh, available from
+
+http://www.scsh.net/
+
+Relay, hack, and enjoy!
+
+Dr. S.
+Dr. S.
+Martin Gasbichler
+Eric Marsden
+Andreas Bernauer
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