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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Anyone ported scheme?
Date: 9 Feb 1994 07:23:23 GMT
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In article <MYCROFT.94Feb7200148@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:

[ ... re: anyone ported MIT Scheme 7.3? ... ]

>I ported Scheme 7.2 to 386BSD about a year ago; the binaries are still
>available in martigny.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scheme-7.2/386bsd.tar.Z.  I will
>probably get to touching up 7.3 for NetBSD this weekend, and will make
>a new set of binaries (linked statically).

Is there a particular reason for the binary-only packaging?  I'm personally
not interested in Scheme for my own use, but there are several Scheme nuts
at this site.  Is it a restriction on modified sources, or a "must not
modify" clause or something?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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