Steel Bank Common Lisp

kr@... writes:

> for me, the intuitive solution would be to always set
> *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* to the directory from which sbcl is
> launched from the unix shell (regardless of what this variable's value
> might have been in a saved core).  so the startup code by entering the

Seconded.


-dan

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On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:43:53PM +0100, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> kr@... writes:
> 
> > for me, the intuitive solution would be to always set
> > *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* to the directory from which sbcl is
> > launched from the unix shell (regardless of what this variable's value
> > might have been in a saved core).  so the startup code by entering the
> 
> Seconded.

OK. I'm happy with this too, since it's been a week or so and no real
problems with this have occurred to me. I'll look again at the
*DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* patch, and probably merge it; and I'll
tweak the documentation of SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to include a (probably
initially incomplete) list of variables whose values are lost in the
save/load process.

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