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>From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Modified version of Fahlman's BUILD now available
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Date: 26 Feb 88 17:52:32 GMT
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Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: BUILD, blocks, planning, history


      A number of people have asked for my version of Fahlman's 1972-vintage
BUILD program, a blocks world with solid geometric modelling capabilities.
This program is now being distributed by Jim Bennett of Coherent Thought, Inc.
(coherent!jbennett@ames.arc.nasa.gov), who should be contacted for further
information.  The program is NOT in shape for general use, but may be
interesting for those who want to study the history of the field.  There
is no support whatsoever for this code.

      This version of BUILD runs under Kyoto Common Lisp.  It requires
that a bug in KCL's EQUALP be fixed before it will run properly; in
some versions of KCL, EQUALP of arrays is incorrect.  (See the code in
l_equalp of predicate.c in the KCL sources; the test for array rank is
backwards.)

					John Nagle


From segre Wed Mar 16 21:49:57 1988
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From: segre (Alberto M. Segre)
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Subject: Fahlman's BUILD
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I understand that it is possible to obtain a copy of Scott Fahlman's old
BUILD program. I have a student who would very much like to take a look at
it. Is it possible for me to obtain a copy? Thanks for your attention.

======

Alberto Segre
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Department of Computer Science
Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853-7501

Tel. (607) 255-9196

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Subject: Fahlman's BUILD
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I am preparing a release version of the system at the moment.  Until I can put
a version on a vax on the Internet somewhere, you won't be able to FTP it
directly.  However, I could mail you uuencoded, compressed tar files of the
sources and a make file.  Would that be acceptable? jim

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From: jbennett@coherent.com (Jim Bennett)
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To: segre@gvax.cs.cornell.edu
Subject: BUILD by mail
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Professor Segre,
	I have created an automatic mailing system for distributing the BUILD
system and you are going to be its first test case.  Five messages should
follow this one, 3 of which will be long and contain the tar files.  I've
also included instructions about unpacking.  I would appreciate knowing if the
files make it intact and any feedback you have about the unpacking and
compiling process.  John and I would also be interested to hear how the system
compiles and runs on a Symbolics.  Thanks in advance, jim

From segre Thu Mar 17 13:54:12 1988
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From: segre (Alberto M. Segre)
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Subject: Re:  BUILD by mail
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Status: R

I got all of the messages, and managed to undecode and unpack them properly.
The makefile would not accept a "make unmail" command at the csh. It
gives an error message "Can't make build1.lsp. Stop." but this may be
an artifact of csh vs sh or of our make system (4.3 BSD).

I will get a student to try to port to Symbolics and let you know what
happens. Thanks again.

-alberto

