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Welcome, dear Schemers!
This is the new release of PC scheme, hopefully fixing all the bugs that
were mentionned. Thanks to your participation, PCS/Geneva has eventually
become an stable product. Most notoriously, the EMS support is now
REALLY operative. As a sign of progress, the last bug reported was a
window misplacement, not a system crash...
If you feel you found a bug, make a good deed and tell us about it.
Our mailing address is now "schemege@cui.unige.ch".
Note that the previous address, 'schemege@uni2a.unige.ch', is still
available; but it will be suppressed soon.
The current release number is 4.01, dated September 1993.
PCS is distributed in three formats:
- PCSCHEME.EXE is a self-extracting file, compressed with ARJ.
- PCSCHEME.TAZ is a 'gzip'ped tar file.
- PCSLIM.EXE is a slimmed-down version (it lacks some PS docs) of PCSCHEME.EXE
Please note some people reported a problem with PCSCHEME.EXE, saying
it aborted with the message 'Out of Memory'. This happens when the
file is downloaded in ASCII mode, so beware! Both files are in binary
format.
This new release includes a few goodies:
- First there is no more encryption on the files; this is justified by
the fact PCS is not a hack anymore...
- Many small programs have been written, mostly in Scheme-WEB, to test
various aspects of the system. Their documentation is supposed
to be adequate. They include a system to display Hershey fonts
in graphics mode, an interface for the Brief(TM) editor, and
various simple things like digits of E and the Fibonacci sequence,
among others.
- I have written a few BGI drivers, one that simply dumps the requests
and one that creates a PostScript output. The environment
variable "PS$" should be set to the filename where the output
should be written; if the variable is not set, PS.BGI sends the
output to the terminal. Note the source code is included!
Of course, your comments, suggestions, and even flames are welcome.
Larry Bartholdi
University of Geneva