PC-LISP V3.00 (C) February 1st 1990 Peter Ashwood-Smith ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a PC-LISP source or executable distribution disk. To unpack the disk use the 'arc' utility provided on the disk. You can get arc instructions by typing 'arc'. To get a list of files in the archive 'src.arc' or 'exe.arc' type 'arc l src.arc' or 'arc l exe.arc' To extract all the files in the archive onto your hard disk. Copy the disk contents to a directory on your hard disk then type. "arc x exe.arc *.*" or "arc x src.arc *.*" After which you can erase the exe.arc or src.arc file as well as the arc.exe program. You now have a directory that contains either the entire pc-lisp executable distribution or the pc-lisp source distribution. You will probably then want to copy the files *.L to a direcory of lisp programs, say \liblisp. Then add to your autoexec.bat file the statement: "set LISP_LIB=\liblisp" Have fun and regards, Peter Ashwood-Smith N.B. There are a number of undocumented functions in 3.00. In particular if you look in Q&A.L you will see the code that self tests them. A short description of the undocumented non Franz functions follows: (toupper str) -> string str zapped to upper case chars. (tolower str) -> string str zapped to lower case chars. (readln [port] [eof]) -> next line read from [port]/piport as a string or nil/eof on end of file. (strlen str) -> length of the string or atom str as a fixnum. (strcomp str) -> string str without ANY blanks in it at all ie compressed. (strtrim str) -> string str without any trailing blanks. (strpad str n) -> string str padded/truncated to 'n' chars long. In addition the Franz 'autoload property is now allowed and it is possible to put the property 'autoload on an atom with a property value which is a string naming the file where the function can be found. See LISPcraft for more details.