1 files changed, 12 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/lang/scsh/pkg-descr b/lang/scsh/pkg-descr
index 225f095e4334..7df558d870dc 100644
--- a/lang/scsh/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/scsh/pkg-descr
@@ -1,64 +1,28 @@
-Scsh is a Unix shell in that is has significant syntax entensions to
+Scsh is a Unix shell in that is has significant syntax extensions to
 make writing Unix shell scripts easy (constructing pipelines, setting
 I/O redirection, conditional execution etc.). It also offers access to
 lower-level functionality like all Posix system calls, TCP/IP sockets
-and a full-featured regular expression library. All this is embedded
-into a general-purpose programming language with proper handling of
-quoting, real data types and extensive, syntactically clean control
-constructs.
+and a full-featured regular expression library. This is embedded into
+a general-purpose programming language with real data types,
+extensive, syntactically clean control constructs and "real" quoting
+rules.
 
 Scsh is also a full implementation of R4RS Scheme with some
-non-standard behaviour (required for scripting) that shouldn't be a
-problem in practice. As a result, a wide varity of exsting Scheme code
-can be used.
-
-Offered functionality:
-- Scheme special forms to work with Unix commands and command chains
-- the ability to be used to write self-identifying scripts with 
-  '#!/usr/local/bin/scsh' as the first line.
-- all Posix system calls including signals, tty and time handling
-- regular expressions, uses the same C library as *BSD, returns a
-  proper structure describing the matches and/or matched substrings.
-- delimited strings, awk-like record/field processing
-- several socket layers
-- A foreign function interface to use other C code, including a tool
-  (cig) to automate integration process.
-- elisp code to run it as a subprocess under emacs
-- On the Scheme side: a module system, basic thread support, optional
-  static linker (compiles images to C, then into an executable).
+non-standard behavior (required for scripting). As a result, a wide
+varity of exiting Scheme code can be used.
 
 The underlying Scheme implementation is a virtual machine for compact
 byte code.
 
-Installed Items:
-----------------
-
-Main program name(s):   "scsh"
-Manpage(s):             scsh(1)
-Info files:             <none>
-Other documentation:    lib/scsh/doc/ (also linked to share/doc/scsh)
-Learning entry point:   lib/scsh/doc/scsh-paper.ps or
-                        http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh/
-
-General Notes:
---------------
-
-Changing ${PREFIX} to something other than /usr/local works
-flawlessly, as far as scsh itself is concerned (that means: it will
-run and find everythings it needs). You will have to change the
-initial "#!/usr/local/bin/scsh" line when running shell scripts, of
-course. An additional problem is the location of optional packages
-like slib, these are still expected to be in /usr/local. I looked
-into the sources and all the hardcoded /usr/local I found are in files
-that are installed sourcecode form when scsh is installed
-(i.e. slib-init.scm).
+The name of the installed program is "scsh", the manpage is scsh(1),
+other documentation is in (/usr/local/)lib/scsh/doc
 
 To load slib, install slib into /usr/local/lib/slib and run 
 (load "slib-init.scm") 
 in scsh. It requires no additional setup (paths or such).
 
 The emacs interface is in the original distribution in emacs/. For
-documentation see doc/user-quide.txt.
+documentation see doc/user-guide.txt.
 
 Differences between FreeBSD port and generic scsh release:
 ----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -67,7 +31,7 @@ Differences between FreeBSD port and generic scsh release:
 confirmation. I changed the default to do this just once. See constant
 *y-or-n-eof-count* in scsh/rw.scm to change it.
 
-2) The original scsh sends a mail to the scsh authors everytime you
+2) The original scsh sends a mail to the scsh authors every time you
 make the package. The FreeBSD port doesn't. The authors of scsh would
 appreciate it if you do a `(cd work/scsh-0.4.4 && make .notify)` after
 you build this package.
@@ -81,4 +45,4 @@ lib/scsh/emacs. scsh's default is not to install these files.
 
 5) Some /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
 
-FreeBSD port provided by Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
+Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>