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@settitle MIT Scheme User's Manual
@titlepage
@title{MIT Scheme User's Manual}
-@subtitle Edition 1.47
+@subtitle Edition 1.48
@subtitle for Scheme Release 7.4
@subtitle 8 April 1996
@author by Stephen Adams
3.0 Warp. We use the term @dfn{Windows} to collectively refer to the
Microsoft Windows operating systems: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and
Windows NT. We use the term @dfn{PC} to refer to any computer running
-OS/2 or Windows. Thus we consider a @dfn{PC} to be a system with a
+OS/2 or Windows. Thus we consider a PC to be a system with a
@sc{dos}-like file system, using backslashes for directory separators,
drive letters, @sc{cr-lf} line termination, and (potentially) the
hideous 8.3 short filenames.
@item -gc-start-position @var{number}
@findex -gc-start-position
@findex MITSCHEME_GC_START_POSITION
-Specifies the first byte position in @samp{-gc-file} at which the Scheme
+Specifies the first byte position in @sc{gc} file at which the Scheme
process can write. If not given, the value of the environment variable
@samp{MITSCHEME_GC_START_POSITION} is used, and if that is not defined,
@samp{0} is used, meaning the beginning of the file. The area of the
@item -gc-end-position @var{number}
@findex -gc-end-position
@findex MITSCHEME_GC_END_POSITION
-Specifies the last byte position in @samp{-gc-file} at which the Scheme
+Specifies the last byte position in @sc{gc} file at which the Scheme
process can write. If not given, the value of the environment variable
@samp{MITSCHEME_GC_END_POSITION} is used, and if that is not defined,
the sum of the start position (as specified by