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\chapter{Overview}\label{sec:intro}
\section{What's in sunet?}
\section{What's in SUnet?}
The Scheme Underground Network Package contains a set of libraries for
doing Net hacking from Scheme/scsh. It includes:
\begin{description}
\item[SMTP client library]
Forge mail from the comfort of your own Scheme process.
\item[RFC822 header library]
Read email-style headers. Useful in several contexts (smtp, http,
etc.)
\item[Simple structured HTML output library]
Balanced delimiters, etc.
\item[The SUnet Web server]
This is a complete implementation of an HTTP 1.0 server in Scheme.
The server contains other standalone packages that may separately be
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\item A library to help 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}
\item[The SUnet ftp daemon]
This is a complete ftp server in Scheme.
\item[ftp client library] Access an ftp server programmatically.
\item[SMTP client library]
Forge mail from the comfort of your own Scheme process.
\item[POP3 client library]
Get at your mails from inside scsh.
\item[RFC822 header library]
Read email-style headers. Useful in several contexts (smtp, http,
etc.)
\item[Daytime and Time protocol client library]
Find out what time it is without paying for a Rolex.
\item[An \texttt{ls} clone] Display Unix-style directory listings
without running \texttt{ls}.
\end{description}
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\section{Obtaining the system}
The network code is available
The SUnet code is available
\urlhd{http://www.scsh.net/sunet/}{here}{from
\url{http://www.scsh.net/sunet/}}.
To run the server, you
need version 0.6.3 or later of \urlhd{http://www.scsh.net/}{scsh}{scsh
from \url{http://www.scsh.net/}}.
Beyond actually running the server, the separate parser libraries and
other utilites may be of use as separate modules.
The SUnet package contains following parts:
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\begin{itemize}
\item Several servers (HTTP, CGI, FTP)
\item Several clients (to FTP, SMTP, POP3, NTP)
\item procedures to handle URIs
\item procedures to handle RFC822 headers
\item analogue of \verb|ls| for scsh
\item {\dots}
\end{itemize}
\url{http://www.scsh.net/sunet/}}. To run the code, you need
version 0.6.3 or later of \urlhd{http://www.scsh.net/}{scsh}{scsh from
\url{http://www.scsh.net/}}.
\section{How to use the packages}
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description file of the modules is loaded and the \texttt{ftp} module
is opened (to use a ftp client). After the things are done, scsh is
finished via the \verb|,exit| command.
%
\begin{alltt}
atari-2600[72] scsh-0.6.2
Welcome to scsh 0.6.2 (Gambit-C 4.0)
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[ecm-utilities ecm-utilities.scm]
[netrc netrc.scm]
[ftp ftp.scm]
> ; do something nasty
> ; call library code
> ,exit
atari-2600[73]
\end{alltt}