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This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib2c7.

New in slib2c7:

	* charplot.scm (charplot:number->string): printf %g gets rid of
	microscopic fractions.
	* printf.scm (%g): Make precision threshold work for both
	fractions and integers.
	* nclients.scm (browse-url-netscape): Try running netscape in
	background.
	* batch.scm (write-batch-line): Added slib:warn.
	* paramlst.scm (check-parameters): Improved warning.
	* batch.scm (batch:command): Renamed from batch:system.
	(batch:try-command): Renamed from batch:try-system.
	(batch:try-chopped-command): Added.
	(batch:apply-chop-to-fit): Removed.
	* glob.scm (replace-suffix): Now works.
	* slib.texi: Put description and URL into slib_toc.html.

SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility
functions for all standard Scheme implementations.

SLIB includes initialization files for Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT,
MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM,
SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.

Documentation includes a manifest, installation instructions, and
coding standards for the library.  Documentation of each library
package is supplied.  SLIB Documentation is online at:

	    http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html

SLIB source is available from:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib2c7.zip
 ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/jacal/slib2c7.zip (FTP instructions follow)

SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor):
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.zip
 ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/jacal/slib-psd1-3.zip

SCHELOG is an embedding of Prolog in Scheme+SLIB:
 http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/schelog/

Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SLIB
has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
 ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz

				-=-=-

  ftp ftp.gnu.org (anonymous)
  bin
  cd pub/gnu/jacal
  get slib2c5.zip