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From: "David Eby" <deby@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Scheme Repository WWW interface
Message-ID: <1994Nov17.164609.15305@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:46:05 -0500
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I am pleased to announce that the Scheme Repository is now accessible 
through the World Wide Web.  Just point your web browser to:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/SRhome.html

to reach the repository.  Of course, the repository may still be
accessed via anonymous ftp:

ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/scheme-repository

For your reference, the Scheme Repository home directory README is 
included below.

David Eby

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The Internet Scheme Repository
README - last modified November 16, 1994

This is a Repository for the Programming Language Scheme, maintained
for the benefit of the Scheme community.

This repository is maintained by David Eby with funding from NSF
grant number CDA-9312614.  Correspondence may be directed to
scheme-repository-request@cs.indiana.edu.

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A WWW interface to the repository is now available.  Point your
web browser to:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/SRhome.html

This WWW interface is relatively new.  A few areas are text-only and
there are bound to be typos, bad links, and other errors.  Please
bear with me as I get it up-and-running.  Your comments are welcome
and will be most helpful; please send error reports, suggestions, 
complaints, etc. to the administrative address
(scheme-repository-request@cs.indiana.edu).

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The repository will be undergoing major changes in the near future.
Projects in the works include:
  - an indexing system.
  - a general expansion of material, especially of the electronic 
    document section of the repository.
  - re-organization of the repository directory structure

Watch this space and comp.lang.scheme for further announcements.

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The repository currently consists of the following directories:

        code    - lots of scheme code meant for benchmarking,
                  library/support, research, education, and fun:
                   lang      - Scheme code for language implementation
                   lib       - Scheme library code
                   match     - Scheme code for pattern matching
                   misc      - Miscellaneous Scheme code
                   num       - Math-oriented Scheme code
                   oop       - Scheme code to implement 
                               object-oriented programming systems
                   string    - Scheme code for string handling
                   struct    - Scheme code to implement and 
                               manipulate many type of data structures
                   sys       - Scheme code for operating systems interface.
                --------------------------------------------------
                These directories replace the old scm directory,
                both to avoid confusion with the SCM Scheme
                implementation and its related packages as well
                as to better organize the archived code.
                --------------------------------------------------

        doc     - Scheme-related documents:
                   arc       - Various archieval material, such as 
                               mailing lists.
                   bib       - the Scheme bibliography (bib/refer, 
                               bibtex, printable)
                   lit       - machine readable parts of various books
                   misc      - miscellaneous documents
                   prop      - proposed revisions to the standard
                   pubs      - publications on a wide variety of topics
                               related to Scheme
                   standards - documents from the RNRS authors
                --------------------------------------------------
                These directories replace the old arc, bib,
                doc, lit, and txt directories.
                --------------------------------------------------

        ext     - extraneous stuff, extensions etc.

        imp     - Most of the publicly distributable Scheme implementations

        incoming- Anonymous ftp writable directory for uploading material
                  to be included in the repository. 

        instruct- Material (other than literature) which is designed
                  primarily for instruction.

        new     - Any "new" contributions.

        promo   - Freely-distributable promotional or demonstration
                  material for Scheme-related products

        unknown - These are files of unknown utility and likely of
                  unknown origin.  Information regarding the use 
                  or author of these is welcome.

        utl     - utilities (schemeweb, SLaTeX)

If you have anything that *you* would have wanted to see in such a
repository, then please consider contributing to this repository.

Your contributions may be uploaded directly into the incoming
directory using anonymous ftp.  Please send a short note to us
describing any uploaded material and where in the repository you
suggest it be located.  Material unaccompanied by documentation
or description is apt to be excluded from the repository (or filed
under "unknown").

We have begun using the GNU compression program 'gzip' to compress the
larger files in the repository.  The old unix 'compress' format will
be supported, as well, at least for the time being.  Files ending with
the .Z suffix are compressed using 'compress', and those ending with
the .gz suffix use 'gzip'.
gzip is available from:
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.tar
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.shar
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe
Files compressed with 'gzip' are significantly smaller than those
compressed with 'compress', and thus will transfer faster.
Contributors are encouraged to submit material in this format.

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The Scheme Repository is mirrored in Europe:
                                      ftp.inria.fr:/lang/Scheme
            faui80.informatik.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/scheme/yorku
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Many thanks to Ozan S. Yigit, founder of the original scheme
repository at York University, for all his help.


