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From: vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney)
Subject: Re: How can I force GCL to print in lower case?
In-Reply-To: barmar@nic.near.net's message of 10 Apr 1995 16:12:07 -0400
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 06:15:36 GMT
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In article <3mc3en$6mc@tools.near.net> barmar@nic.near.net (Barry Margolin) writes:

>   In article <3005937741.475635@naggum.no> Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:
>   >[David Finton]
>
>   >|   Is there a system variable I can set which will force GCL to print in
>   >|   lower case?  For example, if I want to print out a list (1 2 3 t e) I
>   >|   get: (1 2 3 T E), which I don't want.
>
>   >looks like you want to bind *PRINT-CASE* to :DOWNCASE.
>
>   Since *PRINT-CASE* is a relatively recent addition to Common Lisp, GCL
>   might not have it.  In that case, you can use the ~(...~) controls in
>   FORMAT to force output to lower case.
>   -- 

GCL version 1.1 has *PRINT-CASE*.


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