This message announces the availability of Scheme release scm4a7.

I have added a new type called uniform vectors which uses less storage
than regular vectors.  Uniform vectors encompass bit-vectors, strings,
vectors, integer-vectors, float-vectors, double-vectors, and
complex-vectors.

Code has been reorganized and procedure newsmob() added.  New types
can now be added without modifying any of the distribution C files.

#! at the beginning of a file causes the first line to be ignored.
This allows scheme programs to be invoked as shell scripts on Unix
systems.

Scm conforms to Revised^4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
and the IEEE P1178 specification.  Scm is written in C and runs under
Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, NOS/VE, VMS, Unix and similar systems.
ASCII and EBCDIC are supported.

Documentation is included explaining the many Scheme Language
extensions in scm, the internal representation and how to extend or
include scm in other programs.

SCM can be obtained via FTP (detailed instructions follow) from:
altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/scm4a7.shar
altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/scm4a7.tar.Z
nexus.yorku.ca:pub/scheme/new/scm4a7.shar
nexus.yorku.ca:pub/scheme/new/scm4a7.tar.Z

SLIB is a portable scheme library which SCM uses:
altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/slib1b7.shar
altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/slib1b7.tar.Z
nexus.yorku.ca:pub/scheme/new/slib1b7.shar
nexus.yorku.ca:pub/scheme/new/slib1b7.tar.Z

  ftp altdorf.ai.mit.edu [18.43.0.246] (anonymous)
  cd archive/scm
or
  ftp nexus.yorku.ca (anonymous)
  cd pub/scheme/new

This directory contains the distribution version 4a7 of scm.
  `scm4a7.shar' is a shar file of the C code distribution.
  `scm4a7.tar.Z' is a compressed tar file of the C code distribution.
  `slib1b7.shar' is a shar file of a Scheme Library.
  `slib1b7.tar.Z' is a compressed tar file of a Scheme Library.

Remember to use binary mode when transferring the *.tar.Z files.
Be sure to get and read the GNU General Public License (COPYING).
It is included in the scm4a7.shar and scm4a7.tar.Z files.

To receive an IBM PC floppy disk with the source files and MSDOS
executable send $60 ($65 for i386 version) to
   Aubrey Jaffer, 84 Pleasant St. Wakefield MA 01880, USA.
Net 30 day purchase orders are minimum $100.

If you like scm you can support the developement and maintainence of
it by buying a disk from me or by sending money to the above address.
Money received will also help speed the release of a free symbolic
mathematics system (written in scheme).
