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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
-