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+Scsh is a Unix shell in that is has significant syntax extensions to
+make writing Unix shell scripts easy (constructing pipelines, setting
+I/O redirection, conditional execution etc.). It also offers access to
+lower-level functionality like all Posix system calls, TCP/IP sockets
+and a full-featured regular expression library. This is embedded into
+a general-purpose programming language with real data types,
+extensive, syntactically clean control constructs and "real" quoting
+rules.
+
+Scsh is also a full implementation of R4RS Scheme with some
+non-standard behavior (required for scripting). As a result, a wide
+varity of exiting Scheme code can be used.
+
+The underlying Scheme implementation is a virtual machine for compact
+byte code.
+
+The name of the installed program is "scsh", the manpage is scsh(1),
+other documentation is in (/usr/local/)lib/scsh/doc
+
+To load slib, install slib into /usr/local/lib/slib and run 
+(load "slib-init.scm") 
+in scsh. It requires no additional setup (paths or such).
+
+The emacs interface is in the original distribution in emacs/. For
+documentation see doc/user-guide.txt.
+
+Differences between FreeBSD port and generic scsh release:
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+1) When hitting C-d (end-of-file), scsh asks 100 times for
+confirmation. I changed the default to do this just once. See constant
+*y-or-n-eof-count* in scsh/rw.scm to change it.
+
+2) The original scsh sends a mail to the scsh authors every time you
+make the package. The FreeBSD port doesn't. The authors of scsh would
+appreciate it if you do a `(cd work/scsh-0.4.4 && make .notify)` after
+you build this package.
+
+3) A symbolic link ${PREFIX}/share/doc/scsh to the documentation is
+created.
+
+4) Some basic description text files from the distribution base dir
+are copied to lib/doc. The emacs directory is copied into
+lib/scsh/emacs. scsh's default is not to install these files.
+
+5) Some /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
+
+Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>