diff --git a/doc/latex/intro.tex b/doc/latex/intro.tex index e4170e2..b42943e 100644 --- a/doc/latex/intro.tex +++ b/doc/latex/intro.tex @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ hack---is long gone. In retrospect, it all seems like a candy-colored dream, and it may very well be---after all, there was never any proof that the -Untergrund ever existed, and even if there was, we can be sure the +Untergrund ever existed, and even if it did, we can be sure the obedient followers of the shadowy movement leaders have long burned the papers, subjected the hard drives and diskettes to interminable sessions of the junkyard magnet, and eradicated all shreds of @@ -35,22 +35,23 @@ Alas, probably not. \chapter{Overview}\label{sec:intro} -\section{What's SUnet?} - -The Scheme Untergrund Networking Package (SUnet, for short) contains a -set of libraries for doing Internet hacking from scsh. It includes: - +The Scheme Untergrund Networking Package (\textit{SUnet}, for short) +is a collection of applications and libraries for Internet hacking in +Scheme. It runs under Scsh, the Scheme shell. SUnet includes the +following components: +% \begin{description} \item[The SUnet Web server] - This is a complete implementation of an HTTP 1.0 server in Scheme. - The server is accompanied some libraries which may also be used separately: + This is a highly configurable HTTP 1.0 server in Scheme. + The server is accompanied some libraries which may also + be used separately: \begin{itemize} \item URI and URL parsers and unparsers \item a library for writing CGI scripts in Scheme \item server extensions for interfacing to CGI scripts \item server extensions for uploading Scheme code \item simple structured HTML output library - \end{itemize} + \end{itemize} \item[The SUnet ftp server] This is a complete anonymous ftp server in Scheme. \item[ftp client library] This library allows you to access ftp @@ -62,15 +63,16 @@ set of libraries for doing Internet hacking from scsh. It includes: \item[POP3 client library] This library allows you to access your POP3 mailbox from inside scsh. \item[RFC822 header library] This library parses email-style headers. -\item[Daytime and Time protocol client library] - This library lets you find out what time it is without paying for a +\item[Daytime and Time protocol client libraries] + These libraries lets you find out what time it is without paying for a Rolex. -\item[DNS client library] This is a fairly complete, multithreaded DNS +\item[DNS client library] This is a complete, multithreaded DNS library. \item[An \texttt{ls} clone] This library displays Unix-style directory listings without running \texttt{ls}. \end{description} + \section{Obtaining the system} The SUnet code is available