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From: n160ao@tamuts.tamu.edu (Mark Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: XLISP
Summary: Will somebody recompile the 2.0 version of XLisp?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 22:42:52 GMT
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To my AI joy, there is a nice LISP interpretter called XLISP available for
the Atari ST.  The XLISP 1.6 interpretter does wonders, but it is not fully
implemented.  The stuff that is implemented is great and has not had any
bugs that I could see.  The XLISP version 2.0 is fully implemented, but
things like trying to print a function.  Xlisp 2.0 totally crashes when I
use a fration or anything with floating point operations (which work under
XLISP 1.6).  When the XLISP 2.0 crashses I receive an error indicating that
XLISP was not compiled with the flag for floating point. 

I tried to recompiled it with my Laser C compiler, but I don't have all of
the XLISP code for the megamax compiler.  I get errors on a command called
"overlay" which is not described in the LAser C manual.  Also, all of the
math functions are just plain missing for the Megamax compiler.  It looks
like other versions don't need the math functions, onkly the Megamax
compiler.

Please, would someone re-compile the latest Xlisp and uuencode it and send
it to me, or better yet, recompile it and then send it back to the archives
in Michigan.  Thanks.

Mark Lehmann
tmauts.tamu.edu!n160ao