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- PC-LISP V3.00 (C) February 1st 1990 Peter Ashwood-Smith
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This is a PC-LISP source or executable distribution disk. To
- unpack the disk use the 'arc' utility provided on the disk. You can
- get arc instructions by typing 'arc'. To get a list of files in the
- archive 'src.arc' or 'exe.arc' type 'arc l src.arc' or 'arc l exe.arc'
- To extract all the files in the archive onto your hard disk. Copy
- the disk contents to a directory on your hard disk then type.
-
- "arc x exe.arc *.*" or "arc x src.arc *.*"
-
- After which you can erase the exe.arc or src.arc file as well as
- the arc.exe program. You now have a directory that contains either the
- entire pc-lisp executable distribution or the pc-lisp source distribution.
-
- You will probably then want to copy the files *.L to a direcory
- of lisp programs, say \liblisp. Then add to your autoexec.bat file the
- statement: "set LISP_LIB=\liblisp"
-
- Have fun and regards,
-
- Peter Ashwood-Smith
-
- N.B.
-
- There are a number of undocumented functions in 3.00. In
- particular if you look in Q&A.L you will see the code that self tests
- them. A short description of the undocumented non Franz functions
- follows:
-
- (toupper str) -> string str zapped to upper case chars.
- (tolower str) -> string str zapped to lower case chars.
- (readln [port] [eof]) -> next line read from [port]/piport as a string
- or nil/eof on end of file.
- (strlen str) -> length of the string or atom str as a fixnum.
- (strcomp str) -> string str without ANY blanks in it at all ie compressed.
- (strtrim str) -> string str without any trailing blanks.
- (strpad str n) -> string str padded/truncated to 'n' chars long.
-
- In addition the Franz 'autoload property is now allowed and it is
- possible to put the property 'autoload on an atom with a property value
- which is a string naming the file where the function can be found. See
- LISPcraft for more details.
-