Re: [clisp-list] how to exectute a load command in a certain directory

[Marco A. <ma...@cs...>]

On Monday, Mar 29, 2004, at 00:09 America/New_York, Joe Corneli wrote:

> In the CLOCC CL.ENVIRONMENT installation notes, they say this:
>
>  Load the file named 'load-cl-environment.lisp'.
>
>        (load "load-cl-environment.lisp")
>
>  Be careful about the directory you are in and/or the actual location
>  of the aforementioned file.  The package is actually loaded from the
>  directory of *LOAD-TRUENAME* as bound by the call to LOAD.
>
> Can you offer advice on how to get CLISP to think I'm in the working
> directory?  A sort of `save-excursion' to temporarily set the
> working directory?

The latest version of CL-ENVIRONMENT should take care of that 
automagically.  I.e. if you do

	(load "[Path,to]load-cl-environment.lisp")

on a VMS system, it should actually set the internal logical pathnames 
hosts correctly (check the CL-ENV-LIBRARY host after loading the file)

Cheers

Marco

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