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Porting
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  If there is no initialization file for your Scheme implementation, you
will have to create one.  Your Scheme implementation must be largely
compliant with `IEEE Std 1178-1990', `Revised^4 Report on the
Algorithmic Language Scheme', or `Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic
Language Scheme' in order to support SLIB.  (1)

  `Template.scm' is an example configuration file.  The comments inside
will direct you on how to customize it to reflect your system.  Give
your new initialization file the implementation's name with `.init'
appended.  For instance, if you were porting `foo-scheme' then the
initialization file might be called `foo.init'.

  Your customized version should then be loaded as part of your scheme
implementation's initialization.  It will load `require.scm' from the
library; this will allow the use of `provide', `provided?', and
`require' along with the "vicinity" functions (these functions are
documented in the section Note: Require).  The rest of the library
will then be accessible in a system independent fashion.

  Please mail new working configuration files to `agj @ alum.mit.edu'
so that they can be included in the SLIB distribution.

  ---------- Footnotes ----------

  (1) If you are porting a `Revised^3 Report on the Algorithmic
Language Scheme' implementation, then you will need to finish writing
`sc4sc3.scm' and `load' it from your initialization file.