Win32 Lisp Help!

Spencer D. Mindlin

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Apr 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/18/00

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I've installed the Win32 of clisp. It doesn't seem to be working properly.
I'm not sure if there's anything I'm supposed to be changing in the config
file. I can't seem to understand what I'm supposed to change. Also, many
of the keywords for lisp don't seem to be working like I expect them (unless
it's my inexperience of lisp so far).

This is the message -sigh- I'm receiving when I start clisp:

WARNING: No initialisation file specified.
Please try: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\lisp\clisp-1999-07-22\lisp.exe -M lispinit.mem

What am I doing wrong?

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How do you 'abort' from:

10. Break >

Ctrl-D (and abort) seem to work using MacX connected to a linux box...but
here on my Win98 machine..I can't excape from the break prompt.

When I try typing abort I get an error message:
*** - EVAL: variable ABORT has no value

Perhaps some type of library of package isn't being loaded properly?
Please help.

-spencer

Dave Pearson

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Apr 19, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/19/00

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On 18 Apr 2000 17:28:03 -0500, Spencer D. Mindlin <smin...@hamilton.edu> wrote:

> This is the message -sigh- I'm receiving when I start clisp:
>
> WARNING: No initialisation file specified.
> Please try: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\lisp\clisp-1999-07-22\lisp.exe -M lispinit.mem
>
> What am I doing wrong?

How are you staring clisp? Are you following the advice in the above
warning?

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> How do you 'abort' from:
>
> 10. Break >

Ctrl-Z is EOF in WinDos.

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Masoud Pirnazar

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Apr 19, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/19/00

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Most lisp systems have a core interpreter/compiler (written in, say, C), and
additional compiled lisp files called "the lisp image". lisp.exe is the core
interpreter/compiler, and it needs the .mem file (the rest of lisp, including
libraries). I made a clisp.bat file like:

c:\windows\desktop\lisp\clisp-1999-07-22\lisp.exe -M
c:\windows\desktop\lisp\clisp-1999-07-22\lispinit.mem %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6

Try running it from the comand-line (dos prompt) first. If you have further
problems, email me directly.

"Spencer D. Mindlin" wrote:

> I've installed the Win32 of clisp. It doesn't seem to be working properly.
> I'm not sure if there's anything I'm supposed to be changing in the config
> file. I can't seem to understand what I'm supposed to change. Also, many
> of the keywords for lisp don't seem to be working like I expect them (unless
> it's my inexperience of lisp so far).
>

> This is the message -sigh- I'm receiving when I start clisp:
>
> WARNING: No initialisation file specified.
> Please try: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\lisp\clisp-1999-07-22\lisp.exe -M lispinit.mem
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>

> ------
> How do you 'abort' from:
>
> 10. Break >
>