gt@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.UK (Graham Titmus) (11/05/87)
When you bring Common Lisp code developed on another machine over to Lyric you loose the comments when the file is read in. This is fine if you going to continue to edit with Tedit and load from text file every time. However, if you want to bring the file into the FILES? MAKEFILE world you have to go and reinsert them by hand. Is there a way around this -- I really hate to loose the few comments that I have!
fsbrn@BRL.ARPA (Ferd Brundick, VLD/LTTB) (11/05/87)
Haah, There is a new LispUser's package called PORT-CLFILE. I picked up a copy when I was in Pasadena recently and it works quite well. There are 2 major functions in the module -- one imports an ASCII Common Lisp file, comments and all, and the other takes a File Manager style file and writes it as an ASCII file. I find the export function more useful because I had already loaded all my Gould CL files and put the comments back in by copy-selecting between TEdit and SEdit windows (of course, I would have imported the files if I'd had the function at the time). The ability to export FM files as "normal" ASCII files lets you use the Xerox for development work and then transfer the files to a non-Xerox production machine. There was another request recently for a graphics clock for Lyric. Last month I also picked up a copy of the Lyric version of BICLOCK. It's been jazzed up a bit and now includes features that combine the Koto BICLOCK with CROCK. I especially like the chimes every 15 minutes. I would suggest that you contact Xerox Support about the general availability of both of these modules. dsw, fferd Fred S. Brundick USABRL, APG, MD. <fsbrn@brl.arpa>