QobiScheme---A Library for Scheme->C

			     Jeffrey Mark Siskind
			 NEC Research Institute, Inc.
			      4 Independence Way
			 Princeton NJ 08540-6620 USA
			   Qobi@research.nj.nec.com
				 609/951-2705

			   Tuesday 2 March 1999

				 INTRODUCTION

This is release 1.19 of QobiScheme.  It is the underlying substrate for most of
the Scheme software that is produced by me and my students.  Before you
install QobiScheme you must first install Infrastructure, which you can obtain
by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.nj.nec.com/pub/qobi/infrastructure.tar.Z.
This release of QobiScheme requires version 1.12 of Infrastructure, or better.

				 INSTALLATION

To compile QobiScheme, first unpack the distribution:

% uncompress QobiScheme-1.19.tar.Z
% tar xvf QobiScheme-1.19.tar
% rm QobiScheme-1.19.tar
% cd QobiScheme-1.19

The makefile for QobiScheme is distributed with architecture-specific
variables for the several architectures.  Before compiling, you should do:

% architecture-path

and check to see that there is an entry in the makefile for that architecture.
If not, edit the makefile to add an entry for your architecture.  Since
architecture names are specific to a particular machine level and OS version,
you can often copy an existing entry and just change the name.  For example,
an entry for i586-Linux-2.0.29 is likely to be identical to one for
i686-Linux-2.0.27.

Then do the following:

% make port
% cd `architecture-path`
% make install

The above can be repeated for as many architectures as you wish to support.

				 PORTABILITY

QobiScheme has been tested only under Solaris 1.1.3, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 on
Sun/SPARCs, Linux 2.0.0, 2.0.18, 2.0.27, 2.0.30, 2.0.32, 2.0.33, 2.0.34,
2.0.35, and 2.2.1 on Intel/x86s, FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE on Intel/x86s, Linux
2.0.35 and OSF/1 V3.2 and V4.0 on DEC/Alphas, and Irix 4.0.5, 5.3, and 6.2 on
SGI/MIPSs, though it may work under other operating systems on other platforms.

			       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to James Rootham for contributing the CPU time procedures.  Thanks to
Richard Mann for contributing the API to C arrays and OpenGL.  Thanks to Marc
Feeley for giving me access to an Alpha running OSF/1 and to the Computer
Science Department at Rice University for giving me access to a Pentium Pro
running FreeBSD to produce those ports.

				COMMUNICATION

Bug mail should be addressed to Bug-QobiScheme@AI.MIT.EDU and not to me
personally.  Periodic announcements of bug fixes, enhancements, and new
releases will be made to Info-QobiScheme@AI.MIT.EDU.

				HOW TO OBTAIN

The current release of QobiScheme is available by anonymous FTP from
ftp://ftp.nj.nec.com/pub/qobi/QobiScheme.tar.Z.

				  CONDITIONS

The current release of QobiScheme is provided for free on an as-is basis with
no warrantee.  You are free to use, copy, and distribute this software provided
that:

 1. You report *ALL* bugs to Bug-QobiScheme@AI.MIT.EDU whether or not you
    need them fixed.  Include the version number (1.19) in the message.
 2. You report *ALL* bugs that you fixed to Bug-QobiScheme@AI.MIT.EDU.
    Include the version number (1.19) in the message.
 3. You inform me that you obtained a copy of QobiScheme by sending a message
    to Info-QobiScheme-Request@AI.MIT.EDU to be put on the
    Info-QobiScheme@AI.MIT.EDU mailing list.