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@setfilename scheme
@settitle MIT Scheme Reference
@titlepage
@title{MIT Scheme Reference Manual}
-@subtitle Edition 1.32 alpha
+@subtitle Edition 1.37 alpha
@subtitle for Scheme Release 7.2
-@subtitle 25 October 1993
+@subtitle 12 November 1993
@author by Chris Hanson
@author the MIT Scheme Team
@author and a cast of thousands
@itemize @bullet
@item
The host component is of an implementation defined type which may be
-tested for by using the @code{host?} predicate.
+tested for using the @code{host?} predicate.
@item
A directory, if it is not one of the above values, must be a non-empty
``parent'' of the previous one. @code{up} corresponds to the file
@file{..} in unix file systems.
-In file systems that do not have ``heirarchical'' structure, a specified
+In file systems that do not have ``hierarchical'' structure, a specified
directory component will always be a list whose first element is
@code{absolute}. If the system does not support directories other than a
single global directory, the list will have no other elements. If the
system supports ``flat'' directories, i.e.@: a global set of directories
with no subdirectories, then the list will contain a second element,
which is either a string or @code{wild}. In other words, a
-non-heirarchical file system is treated as if it were heirarchical, but
-the heirarchical features are unused. This representation is somewhat
+non-hierarchical file system is treated as if it were hierarchical, but
+the hierarchical features are unused. This representation is somewhat
inconvenient for such file systems, but it discourages programmers from
-making code depend on the lack of a file heirarchy. Fortunately few
+making code depend on the lack of a file hierarchy. Fortunately few
such file systems are in common use today.
@item
This section describes procedures that manipulate files and directories.
Any of these procedures can signal a number of errors for many reasons.
The specifics of these errors are much too operating-system dependent to
-document them here. However, if such an error is signalled by one of
+document here. However, if such an error is signalled by one of
these procedures, it will be of type
@code{condition-type:file-operation-error}.
@findex condition-type:file-operation-error