From: Hermano Moura (moura@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: 11/19/92


Subject: SML/NJ 0.91 for Linux.
Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:31:02 +0100
From:   Hermano Moura <moura@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <92Nov19.143140met.58033@tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>


                         Standard ML of New Jersey
        Version 0.91 for the i386/i486 running Linux, November 1992
                         [This is alpha release 2]

___ WHAT

        SML/NJ is a compiler for the functional programming language
        Standard ML (SML). It is a fairly complete and robust
        implementation of SML.

__ HISTORY

        This is a port of Standard ML of New Jersey (SML/NJ) to Linux. It
        is based on the work of Mark Leone (mleone@cs.cmu.edu) who did
        the port for i386/i486 machines. The current binary was compiled
        using Linux 0.98.1.

__ WHERE TO GET

        The alpha version for Linux is available by ftp from

                           ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk

        Login as "anonymous". Look at the directory "pub/linux". You have to
        get just the file "smlnj-0.91-linux.tar.Z". This file contains the
        following files:

        README
        README.Linux
        NEWS-0.91
        WHAT-IS-SML
        releaseNotes.tex
        smlnj

__ KNOWN BUGS AND DEFICIENCIES

        1 Some minimal precision problems exist when a 387 emulator is
          used.

        2 ML functions System.Directory.listDir and System.Directory.getWD
          not working at the moment.

__ BUGS REPORT

        Please report any bugs to:
        
        Hermano Moura (moura@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk)
        and
        Andre Santos (andre@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk)