THINES@UMKCVAX2.BITNET (04/21/89)
Thanks for all the suggestions all eight of them. I used Arun Welch's suggestions to use (CLOSEF (CAR OPENP)) and this worked. I had seen the function OPENP but I passed over it when I was looking over the manual. The semantic meaning of OPENP did not key me in to the idea that it returned a list of the open files (or at least the stream id). Thanks for the help. Tim Hines University of Missouri-Kansas City
koomen@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (04/22/89)
You may want to check out the lispusers module FILEWATCH. It puts up a regularly updated display of open files, including a read/write indicator and a percentage bar reflecting the relative position of the fileptr. Clicking right on any displayed file brings up a menu which includes a Close command. Check the documentation for the various customizations. Seeing the % bar slowly creep toward 100 on a slow load or compile on a big file takes the edge off a bit and soothes the spirit. Somewhat. :-) -- Hans