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; Part of Scheme 48 1.9. See file COPYING for notices and license.
This is
Scheme 48 1.9.2 "Tübingen Edition"
a derivative of Scheme 48 0.58, put together by various volunteers
around the Internet, with release management happening in Tübingen,
Germany. Scheme 48 0.58 was developed by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan
Rees and incorporates PreScheme 0.5 by Richard Kelsey.
Please report bugs to scheme-48-bugs@s48.org, 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.
The license conditions are explained in COPYING.
Send mail to scheme-48-request@s48.org 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
WINDOWS.txt notes on the Windows port
INSTALL installation instructions
COPYING notices and licenses
COPYING.rtf copyright notice in RTF format
configure configuration script
Makefile.in input to configure
doc/ some documentation
scheme48.man a Unix-style manual page
manual.ps manual in Postscript
manual.pdf manual in PDF
html/ manual in html (the root is html/index.html)
src/ manual sources
todo.txt list of improvements we hope to make someday
news.txt list of improvements we have already made
io.txt how the I/O system works
deriving.txt how to create derived versions
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")
cml/ Concurrent ML libraries
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/ interface to POSIX system calls
srfi/ SRFI implementations
sort/ sorting libraries
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
scheme48vm-prelude.h internal declarations for scheme48vm.c
scheme48heap.c storage management (generated by Pre-Scheme compiler)
scheme48heap.h extern declarations for scheme48heap.c
scheme48read-image.c reading a heap from a file
scheme48write-image.c writing a heap to a file
scheme48image.h extern declarations for scheme48...-image.c
scheme48write-barrier.h WRITE_BARRIER(...) macro
main.c entry point for the VM
prescheme.h part of the VM
bignum.c large integers
bignum.h declarations for large integers
bignumint.h internal declarations for large integers
external.c support for calling C and being called from C
extension.c default definition of vm_extension()
scheme48.h C declarations and macros for Scheme 48 data structures
scheme48.h.in template for scheme48.h
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
srfi-27.c C-side support for SRFI 27 (random bits)
asm-glue.c support code for (upcoming) native code
unix/ Unix-specific source files
unix.h header file for unix/* files
posix/ C half of 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
load-linker.exec script for loading the external linker
build-external-modules script for creating external-module initializer
minor-version-number current version number
generate-c-header.bat Windows batch file for generating c/scheme48.h
build-usual-image.bat Windows batch file for creating scheme48.image
build-initial-image.bat Windows batch file for creating build/initial.image
i-know-what-i-am-doing.bat Windows batch file for compiling VM to C
scheme48.wxs WiX script for generating scheme48.msi
build/{UnicodeData.txt,PropList.txt,SpecialCasing.txt,CaseFolding.txt,CompositionExclusions.txt}
Unicode data files
emacs/ Emacs support