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Packages not shipped with Guile
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We ship the Guile tutorial and reference manual with the Guile
distribution [FIXME: this is not currently true (Sat Sep 20 14:13:33 MDT
1997), but will be soon.]  Since the Scheme standard (R4RS) is a stable
document, we ship that too.

Here are references (usually World Wide Web URLs) to some other freely
redistributable documents and packages which you might find useful if
you are using Guile.

*SCSH*
     the Scheme Shell.  Gary Houston has ported SCSH to Guile.  The
     relevant chapter (Note: The Scheme shell (scsh)) has references
     to the SCSH web page with all its documentation.

*SLIB*
     a portable Scheme library maintained by Aubrey Jaffer.  SLIB can be
     obtained by ftp from <ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/jacal/>.

     The SLIB package should be unpacked somewhere in Guile's load
     path.  It will typically be unpacked in
     `/usr/local/share/guile/site', so that it will be
     `/usr/local/share/guile/site/slib'.

     Guile might have been installed with a different prefix, in which
     case the load path can be checked from inside the interpreter with:

          guile> %load-path
          ("/usr/local/share/guile/site" "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a" "/usr/local/share/guile" ".")

     The relevant chapter (Note: SLIB) has details on how to use SLIB
     with Guile.

*JACAL*
     a symbolic math package by Aubrey Jaffer.  The latest version of
     Jacal can be obtained from <ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/jacal/>,
     and should be unpacked in `/usr/local/share/guile/site/slib' so
     that it will be in `/usr/local/share/guile/site/slib/jacal'.

     The relevant section (Note: JACAL) has details on how to use
     Jacal.