From Newsgroup: comp.lang.scheme

This message announces the availability of Scheme release scm-5f5.

SCM conforms to Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
and the IEEE P1178 specification. SCM is written in C, runs on a wide
variety of platforms, and is highly optimized for the symbolic
mathematics computations performed by the JACAL interactive symbolic
math system.

SCM is free software and part of the GNU project. It is released
under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from
SCM's home page:

<https://www.gnu.org/software/scm/>

Links to distributions of SCM and related softwares are at the end of
this message.

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scm-5f5 news:

* scm-5f5 adds functions erf, erfc, log-gamma, real-gamma, exp-1, and
log1+ if the C compiler supports C99.

* scm-5f5 won't choke if a soft-port is used after transcript-off.

* SCM's home page has moved to <https://www.gnu.org/software/scm/>

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SCM source is available from:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/scm/scm-5f5.zip>
<https://www.gnu.org/software/scm/scm-5f5.tar.gz>
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f5-1.src.rpm>
Also available as binary RPM:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f5-1.x86_64.rpm>
Also available as MS-Windows installer (older version):
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4-1.exe>

SLIB is a portable Scheme library which SCM requires:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/slib/slib-3c2.zip>
<https://www.gnu.org/software/slib/slib-3c2.tar.gz>
Also available as RPM:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c2-1.src.rpm>
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c2-1.noarch.rpm>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c2-1.exe>

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JACAL is a symbolic math system written in Scheme:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/jacal/jacal-2a1.zip>
<https://www.gnu.org/software/jacal/jacal-2a1.tar.gz>
Also available as RPM:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-2a1-1.src.rpm>
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-2a1-1.noarch.rpm>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-2a1-1.exe>

WB is a disk based, sorted associative array (B-tree) library for SCM.
Using WB, large databases can be created and managed from SCM.
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4.zip>
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4-1.src.rpm>
Also available as binary RPM:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4-1.x86_64.rpm>

FreeSnell is a program to compute optical properties of multilayer
thin-film coatings:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c4.zip>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c4-1.exe>

SIMSYNCH is a digital logic simulation system written in SCM.
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/synch-1c5.zip>

TURTLSCM is a turtle graphics package which works with SCM on MS-DOS
or X11 machines:
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/turtlegr.tar.gz>

#! implements "#!" (POSIX) shell-scripts for MS-DOS batch files.
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/sharpbang.zip>
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/#!.zip>

SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor):
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz>

Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SCM
has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo>
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