-*- Indented-Text -*- For information on installation, read the file INSTALL (also included in the binary distribution for your machine). Description of the distribution files MIT Scheme is being distributed as a set of compressed tar files. Choose the files that are appropriate for your site. For the moment, the distribution is only available for the machines and operating systems listed below. The compiler is currently ported to six architectures: MC68020-40, HP Precision Architecture, MIPS R2000+, DEC VAX, Intel i386/i486 and DEC Alpha. However, the preliminary 7.2 distribution is ready only for those processors and OS combinations listed below. If your machine contains one of those processors but you are running on a different OS, AND you are willing to do the work required to bring it up (a few hours), contact us at the mailing address below. For an MS-DOS distribution, look at the README.TXT file in the DOS-386 directory. This is a preliminary release, provided now mostly because it runs on more hardware than the 7.1 release. This version is essentially a snapshot of the system under development at MIT, and has not been pounded on (on alternate hardware) as much as the 7.1 release. In addition, the documentation listed below matches the 7.1 release, not this version. This distribution is not currently available on magnetic tape from MIT. Important: The system CANNOT be brought up just from the sources. You need Scheme binaries (not C/Unix binaries) for the architecture (and endianness, when applicable) you are trying to bring it up on. Archive File Description ------------- -------------------------------------------------- INSTALL Installation instructions. Also included in each binary distribution. pmax.tar.Z Binary distribution for MIPS-based DecStations running Ultrix. pmax-bci.tar.Z Optional debugging information files for pmax-bci.tar.Z sgi.tar.Z Binary distribution for Silicon Graphics (MIPS) running Irix 4.0 sgi-bci.tar.Z Optional debugging information files for sgi.tar.Z src.tar.Z Source code for the distribution. bootstrap.scm File to build Scheme binaries from sources. scheme.ps.Z MIT Scheme Reference Manual, compressed PostScript. scheme.dvi.Z MIT Scheme Reference Manual, compressed DVI. user.ps.Z MIT Scheme User's Manual, compressed PostScript. user.dvi.Z MIT Scheme User's Manual, compressed DVI. r4rs.ps.Z Revised^4 Report on Scheme, compressed PostScript. r4rs.dvi.Z Revised^4 Report on Scheme, compressed DVI. info.tar.Z GNU Emacs Info files for the MIT Scheme Reference Manual and the MIT Scheme User's Manual. doc.tar.Z Texinfo source files for the MIT Scheme Reference Manual, the MIT Scheme User's Manual. LaTeX source for R4RS. Cursory documentation for (unsupported) macros and the SCode abstraction. sicp.tar.Z Compatibility package to run examples and exercises from "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson & Sussman, with Sussman. compdoc.tar.Z Documentation on internals of the compiler and porting guide (preliminary). xscheme.el xscheme.elc GNU Emacs interface. Do not use the "xscheme" files that come with Emacs -- use these instead. For bug reports or comments to the MIT Scheme implementors, send computer mail to bug-cscheme@zurich.ai.mit.edu (on the Arpanet/Internet) or US Snail to Scheme Team c/o Prof. Hal Abelson 545 Technology Sq. rm 410 Cambridge MA 02139 Other relevant mailing lists: info-cscheme@zurich.ai.mit.edu Questions, notices of bug fixes, etc. This list is the same as the usenet news group "comp.lang.scheme.c". Send mail to "info-cscheme-request" to be added. scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu Applications, mostly for educational uses. This list is the same as the usenet news group "comp.lang.scheme". Note that this mailing list is NOT MIT Scheme specific. It covers general language issues, relevant to all the implementations of the scheme language (MIT Scheme, Yale University's T, Indiana University's Scheme84, Semantic Microsystems' MacScheme, and Texas Instruments' PC Scheme among others). Send mail to "scheme-request" to be added.