manuel@cnam.cnam.fr (Manuel Bouyssou - The Mac & NeXT maniac) (11/20/90)
Hi Netters ;-)
Few months ago Jay Reynolds Freeman, wrote a shareware Scheme implementation
for our beloved Apple Macintosh. He has send to anyone who asked for, a free
copy of his Scheme 'till the end of July 1990. Unfortunately I've send to
him 2 letters with 2 blank disks and enough postage to get it back with no
reply.
Jay's Scheme is an "R3" interpreter, and I should be very happy to receive
it from anyone who got it, (even you Jay if you read this ;-)
Many thank's in advance !!
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manuel@cnam.cnam.fr - manuel@DACTH01.BITNET freeman@argosy.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman) (12/01/90)
In article <289@cnam.UUCP> manuel@cnam.cnam.fr (Manuel Bouyssou) writes: >Few months ago Jay Reynolds Freeman, wrote a shareware Scheme implementation >for our beloved Apple Macintosh. He has send to anyone who asked for, a free >copy of his Scheme 'till the end of July 1990. Unfortunately I've send to >him 2 letters with 2 blank disks and enough postage to get it back with no >reply. Manuel, I do not recall whether I received any of your letters, but I certainly sent distribution discs in reply to all the requests I got. My records of where I sent them are at home; I will check and see if either of your letters reached me. Possibly there is a customs problem, but until I check my records I cannot guess in which direction: I did receive several discs from outside the US, and there are some that I sent overseas that I know made it to their destinations (confirmed by follow-up letter or EMail). I never had anything returned by US customs as unexportable. Alternatively, could there have been a problem with how you packaged your discs? The square corners tend to eat through envelopes pretty quickly, particularly if they are put in loose. I received several in envelopes which were about to disintegrate. In the US one can buy stiff cardboard mailers into which a disc fits tightly, so it won't shuck around. I will report on what I got from and sent to France; I am sure I sent at least one disc there, but your name does not offhand look familiar. Depending on what I find one of us might try another mailing; let's wait and see. If there is some problem getting discs into France it obviously won't do much good for me simply to mail you another copy. Failing all else, I have sent copies of my implementation (which is called "Pixie Scheme") to the US user groups BMUG and Boston Computer Society Macintosh Users' Group, and I believe it is archived on the US ftp-access site "rascal" at the University of Texas. I know of no non-US user groups, BBSes or archival sites that have it (possibly excepting an unknown BBS in New Zealand -- one requestor said she was going to post it there -- but that doesn't help you much.) The distribution is a little large to EMail (the distribution disc has 700+ KBytes on it). Are any other non-US readers missing discs they requested from me? Can any French user of Pixie Scheme help Manuel? -- Jay Freeman PS: By the way, I hope to release an update soon; but the current version of MPW C (3.1) has too many floating-point bugs for me to work around. The current rumor is that a fixed MPW C will be out before the end of the year, in which case there might well be a revision of Pixie Scheme sometime in the first quarter of 1991.
dcw@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (David C. Worenklein) (12/06/90)
Jay- Could you post your (US Mail) address, and what you want in exchange for your Scheme implementation? -David PS Sorry, my mailer bounced