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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Port to Linux or DOS?
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In article <3jcsdb$ran@excalibur.edge.net> Blake McBride <blake@edge.ercnet.com> writes:
>
>As I understand it there was a group who was supposed to be porting
>franz lisp to linux.  Is that true?  Is anyone working on it?
>If so whats the status?
>
>Once ported to linux, a dos port would be trivial.
>
>I took a look at franz myself a few years ago.  It seemed like it
>wouldn't be that big a deal.  Most of the non portable issues I
>saw were written non portably for no reason.
>
>I'd love to do it but alas I have no time.  May do it some day,
>however.

Well, one issue is the compiler.  You want one for 386/486/586
machines, not for a VAX, 68k, or Tahoe.

Fortunately, that problem has been solved, because I have a
Franz compiler that compiles to C.  Indeed, Richard Tobin and I
have ported Franz Lisp to FreeBSD/NetBSD on 386 etc PCs.
I haven't (yet) brought it up-to-date for the latest "some things 
are 64 bits long" releases, but the old binaries still run.

For more on this, ftp instructions, etc, see:

   http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/franz-for-386.html

or mail me.

Note that this is Franz Lisp, the BSD Lisp from 4.2 days, and
not Franz Inc's Common Lisp or indeed Common Lisp at all.

-- jeff
