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- LAMBDA-ARCHIVE. Restore the following directories [NB. GULAM is not in
- the package: it has been posted already on the UUNET. Any other Bourne-
- like SHELL can be used instead and there is no significant loss if the
- external SHELL is absent!]:
-
- \bin:
- <lambda.ttp> = main program: a LAMBDA-CALCULUS INTERPRETER
- <gsh.prg> = <GULAM.PRG: 1.03.04.05> | NOT IN THE PACKAGE
- <gulam.g> = <GULAM PROFILE> | [posted previously]
- <ldfont.prg> = public domain monochrome font loader
- <to_desk.prg> = utility: allows to use desk ACC's from LAMBDA
- <ed.prg> = system editor | [your preferred one]
- \lib:
- mac.fnt = alternate font file <8x16 FED> for <ldfont.prg>
- nice.fnt = another one
- \man:
- lambda.man = machine-independent documentation
- atari.man = describes ATARI.ST specific features of LAMBDA
- lambda.ver = list of most recent versions
- lambda.hlp = an edited variant of the on-line HELP-pages
- \tmp: = empty [used by the built-in EDITor]
-
- FIRST STEPS. Unpack everything and look up the docs [\man\lambda.man] and
- [\man\atari.man] first. Then [no need for an external SHELL], click on
- <lambda.ttp> and - once inside LAMBDA - ask [help]. The documentation, by
- the way, can be also read with the paging command [cat <file-name>], from
- within LAMBDA!
-
- NOTE FOR THE SOZOBON-VERSION. The current version of LAMBDA [1.39a] has been
- compiled with the SOZOBON compiler <1.01: 1988>, using the <dLibs 1.2: 1988>
- of Dale Schumacher so that the code [even the binary] is now entirely in the
- public domain. The differences from the variant compiled with Mark Williams
- C <3.05> are rather insignificant (unless the Mark Williams shell is used
- as a default shell).
-
- Here is a list of visible differences:
-
- - length of [compiled] code: 71902 [SOZOBON] versus 65157 [Mark Williams],
- - temporary files [generated by the built-in EDITor] have different names,
- - the [SOZOBON] system-call for shells of type [m] (LAMBDA-default) does
- not exactly fit the specification of the Mark Williams shell any more,
- - in the SOZOBON variant, the `system()'-call tries first the `_shell_p'-
- variable; if this one is not valid [this would actually happen for the
- Mark Williams shell], the environment SHELL variable must be defined
- in the current SHELL's initialization script (and must agree with the
- internal SHELL variable of LAMBDA); a SHELL of type [s] will use the
- <dLibs 1.2> specificatiom of the `system()'-call (EXAMPLE: the GPshell
- <Craft 2.02> of G. Poletiek),
- - the co-operation with GULAM is more robust in the SOZOBON variant,
- although calling `ue' from within LAMBDA will still cause memory
- problems on a standard 1040 [this is GULAM!]
-
- MAIL: Adrian Rezus [Meyhorst 91-01: 6537 KJ Nijmegen, Holland]
- UUNET: [this has changed too frequently to be reliable]
- VOICE: ...-31-80-443868
-