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[Ilisp-help] Problem with shell

[Thom S. <tsc...@ad...>]

I'm trying to use XLisp as an Inferior process.
I'd prefer to use Tom Almy xlisp+ but I'm unable
to run any lisp binary under an Xemacs shell.
I'm running Xemacs 21.4 in an XP environment.

After issuing a shell, everything sems ok...

C:\XLisp+>dir
dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is D007-51AD

 Directory of C:\XLisp+

11/28/2005  08:29 PM    <DIR>          .
11/28/2005  08:29 PM    <DIR>          ..
11/25/2005  02:00 AM    <DIR>          bin
07/15/2005  10:08 PM    <DIR>          docs
11/26/2005  11:05 AM    <DIR>          lsp
07/16/2005  01:41 PM    <DIR>          xl304dos
11/22/2005  09:37 AM    <DIR>          xl304req
07/03/2005  12:26 PM    <DIR>          xl304win
11/28/2005  08:06 PM                82 xlisp.bat
08/04/1996  11:00 AM           293,888 XLISP30.EXE
07/02/2005  09:18 PM           348,084 xlisp300.hlp
07/16/2005  01:41 PM           122,728 xlispsml.exe
11/27/2005  06:07 PM             2,855 xlispsml.PIF
07/02/2005  09:18 PM           324,608 xlispwin.exe
11/25/2005  01:15 AM               227 xlispwin.ini
07/02/2005  09:18 PM           280,064 xlwin32.exe
              22 File(s)      2,806,620 bytes
               8 Dir(s)  175,013,314,560 bytes free

but when I invoke the lisp binary either directly or via batch file...

C:\XLisp+>xlisp.bat
xlisp.bat

C:\XLisp+>cd c:\XLisp+

C:\XLisp+>xlispsml.exe lsp\init lsp\classes lsp\common lsp\common2
XLISP-PLUS version 3.04
Portions Copyright (c) 1988, by David Betz.
Modified by Thomas Almy and others.
; loading "lsp\init.lsp" ; loading "lsp\classes.lsp" ; loading
"lsp\common.lsp" ; loading "lsp\common2.lsp"

no Lisp prompt is returned...

'1' does not evaluate, nor (+ 1 1),however,

(system "dir") returns

 Volume in drive C has no label
 Volume Serial Number is D007-51AD
 Directory of C:\XLISP_~1

.            <DIR>     07/02/05   9:15p
..           <DIR>     07/02/05   9:15p
BIN          <DIR>     11/23/05   5:06p
DOCS         <DIR>     07/02/05   9:15p
LSP          <DIR>     07/16/05   1:47p
XL304DOS     <DIR>     07/16/05   1:41p
XL304REQ     <DIR>     07/02/05   9:15p
XL304WIN     <DIR>     07/02/05   9:18p
XLDOCMSW ZIP    350000 11/19/05   1:13p
XLDOCW6  A4     471552 07/02/05   9:17p
XLDOCW6  LTR    471552 07/02/05   9:17p
XLISP    BAT        82 11/28/05   8:06p
XLISP30  EXE    293888 08/04/96  11:00a
XLISP300 HLP    348084 07/02/05   9:18p
XLISPSML EXE    122728 07/16/05   1:41p
XLISPSML PIF      2855 11/27/05   6:07p
XLISPWIN EXE    324608 07/02/05   9:18p
XLISPWIN INI       227 11/25/05   1:15a
XLWIN32  EXE    280064 07/02/05   9:18p
       30 file(s)    2806620 bytes
                  1023932928 bytes free

(exit)
XLISP-PLUS 3.03 contains contributed code by:
Tom Almy, Mikael Pettersson, Neal Holtz, Johnny Greenblatt, Ken Whedbee,
Blake McBride, Pete Yadlowsky, Hume Smith, and Richard Zidlicky.
Portions copyright (c) 1988, Luke Tierney.
t

C:\XLISP_~1>

Re: [Ilisp-help] Problem with shell

[Nikodemus S. <tsi...@cc...>]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Thom Scanlan wrote:

> I'm trying to use XLisp as an Inferior process.
> I'd prefer to use Tom Almy xlisp+ but I'm unable
> to run any lisp binary under an Xemacs shell.
> I'm running Xemacs 21.4 in an XP environment.

Have you tried doing

  (setq inferior-lisp-program "path/to/your/xlisp")

in ~/.emacs (or the Xemacs equivalent), and then issuing the command M-x 
run-lisp? (This is neither shell nor Ilisp, but probably your best bet.)

Ilisp is currently neither maintained nor developed anymore in the (in my 
opinion) any usefull sense of the word, and I suspect the same applies to 
xlisp+.

Unless you specifically and really need xlisp+ I suggest you replace 
xlisp+ with a modern Common Lisp implementation (eg. Clisp), and Ilisp 
with Slime.

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
                   Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."