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2 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
4 <maintainer type="project">
5 <email>scheme@gentoo.org</email>
6 <name>Gentoo Scheme Project</name>
9 Scsh has two main components: a process notation for running programs
10 and setting up pipelines and redirections, and a complete syscall
11 library for low-level access to the operating system, i.e. to POSIX,
12 the least common denominator of more or less all Unices, plus widely
13 supported extensions such as symbolic links and BSD sockets.
15 Moreover, scsh provides an awk facility for pattern-directed
16 computation over streams of records, a rich facility for matching
17 regular-expression patterns in strings, event-based interrupt
18 handling, user-level threads, a futuristic module system, and an
19 interactive environment.
21 Scsh comes with extensive documentation describing these and other