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100 lines
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TinyScheme Extensions (TSX) 1.1 [September, 2002]
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(c) 2002 Manuel Heras-Gilsanz (manuel@heras-gilsanz.com)
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This software is subject to the license terms contained in the
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LICENSE file.
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Changelog:
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1.1 (Sept. 2002) Updated to tinyscheme 1.31
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1.0 (April 2002) First released version
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WHAT IS TSX?
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TinyScheme Extensions is a set of dynamic libraries incorporating
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additional funcionality to TinyScheme, a lightweight
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implementation of the Scheme programming language. TinyScheme
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(http://tinyscheme.sourceforge.net) is maintained by D. Souflis
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(dsouflis@acm.org), and is based on MiniSCHEME version 0.85k4.
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Scheme is a very nice and powerful programming language, but the
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basic language is very minimalistic in terms of library functions;
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only basic file input / output functionality is specified.
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Different implementations of the language (MIT Scheme, GUILE,
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Bigloo...) provide their own extension libraries. TSX attempts to
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provide commonly needed functions at a small cost in terms of
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additional program footprint. The library is modularized, so that
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it is possible (and easy!) to select desired functionality via
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#defines in tsx.h.
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INSTALLATION
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TSX has been tested on GNU/Linux 2.4.2 with gcc 2.96 and
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libc-2.2.2, with TinyScheme 1.31.
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To install, copy the distribution file to the directory
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where TinyScheme is installed (and where scheme.h lies),
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and run make. If building succeeds, a file called tsx.so
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should be created. This file can be loaded as a TinyScheme
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extension with
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(load-extension "tsx-1.0/tsx")
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After loading TSX, you can make use of its functions.
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To reduce footprint, you can choose the functionality which
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will be included. To do so, have a look at tsx.h and
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comment the #defines for unneeded modules.
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If you get compiler errors, make sure you have enabled
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dynamic modules in your tinyscheme runtime (define USE_DL
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somewhere near the top in scheme.h).
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SAMPLE APPLICATIONS
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Three sample applications are distributed with TSX 1.0.
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The code is not particularly elegant, nor written in proper
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functional style, but is provided for illustration of the
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implemented calls.
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-smtp.scm
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Sends an email to the user getting the username from
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the USER shell variable, connecting to the SMTP port
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on the local machine.
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-listhome.scm
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Provides a list of all the files on the user's home
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directory (obtained with the HOME environment variable).
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-srepl.scm
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Provides a socket-based read-eval-print-loop. It listens
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for connections on the 9000 port of the local machines,
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and executes the commands received. To test it, run
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telnet localhost 9000
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after starting the sample application, and type Scheme
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expressions. You will get the evaluations. To exit the
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session, type "quit" and TinyScheme will exit, closing
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the socket. The output of some functions will not
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be the same as you would obtain on TinyScheme's
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"command line", because standard output is not
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redirected to the socket, but most commands work ok.
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You should copy these applications to the directory where
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TinyScheme is installed (i.e., where the "scheme" binary
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file resides), and can be run with:
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./scheme listhome.scm
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./scheme smtp.scm
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./scheme srepl.scm
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TSX FUNCTIONS
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The extension functions implemented by TinyScheme Extensions are
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documented in the file "tsx-functions.txt".
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END
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