Getting started.

[william Glenn]

A big fan of lisps, and this one has my attention. However, there really isn't a step-by-step guide to getting going on the website? All I see on the downloads page is download the recent kernel with instructions. Okay, I can do that. The README in kernel S34.6 and all it says is (load "install.shen"). 

Right. (load "/path/to/S34.6/install.lsp) loads install.lsp then immediately fails because it looks for the next file in a different directory. 

Great, so I naively try:

(progn  (uiop:chdir "/path/to/S34.6") (load "install.lsp")) 

This says that uiop: doesn't exist.. Thats weird. So, I kill the lisp process completely to start fresh. I had to read the hyper spec to learn that (load ..) looks for items in path *default-pathname-defaults*. Looks like this variable is set to the directory that sbcl is called from.

Okay, so I run (in emacs) M-x dired "/path/to/S34.6/". Then M-x sly and (load "install.lsp"). This runs beautifully until I get an error that "/path/to/S34.6/StLib/Encrypttbos.txt" does not exist. Right-O, I suppose I'll do without that, and select to continue in the debugger. Well, that now says "Could not save core". That doesn't sound good. To heck with it, I press on and select the continue option again in the debugger. And I get a return T, Great! We've loaded.. something. 

Now what? lol. All other READMEs in S34.6 say to run (load ..) while in shen.. but I am not in shen. How do I get to shen. Was this all supposed to be done after I do something else. What is that step? If I am right so far, what is next? On Ubuntu btw. would really appreciate some guidance. Thanks.

[dr.mt...@gmail.com]

If you're using Linux you probably need the advice of somebody who uses that OS.  Basically you

copy your SBCL executable into S34.6, open it and type (load "install.lsp") which works in Windows.

M.

[nha...@gmail.com]

apt-get install sbcl
wget "https://www.shenlanguage.org/Download/S34.6.zip"
unzip S34.6.zip
cd S34.6
sbcl
(load "install.lsp")
4 
mv sbcl-shen.exe sbcl-shen
./sbcl-shen

That ecrypttbos.txt is broken on linux for some reason. My guess is the filename is supposed to point to StLib/Encrypt/tbos.txt

If you ignore the problem with '4' above, it still generates the shen lisp image

[nha...@gmail.com]

The problem is in encrypt.shen in that it uses the Windows path sep in the call to (key "Encrypt\tbos.txt"), instead of the correct forward slash.

[dr.mt...@gmail.com]

Ah; I've fixed that.

M.

[osmanfb1]

I just downloaded S35 and it also has the same problem  in 

S35/StLib/Encrypt/encrypt.shen 

at the end of the file (line 85) backslash should be changed to forward slash. Compiles ok after editing.

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[Mark Tarver]

must have crept in from an earlier version - gone hopefully for good now

M.

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