Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff
From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lucid Lisp
Message-ID: <3677@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Oct 90 17:12:07 GMT
References: <993@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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In article <993@ai.cs.utexas.edu> eilerts@cs.utexas.edu (Erik Eilerts) writes:

> I just got CLX up and working on a Sun Sparc (after much hard work).
> Now, I'm getting ready to port some code from an Explorer to the Sun.
> Unfortunately, I just noticed that the lisp I'm using, Lucid 3.0,
> doesn't support flavors or methods.  Since my code relies on flavors
> pretty heavily, this is a problem.  I recently heard that Sun's new
> version of Lucid lisp now supports flavors, but I cannot verify this
> because I don't have a manual.

As far as I can tell from looking at the sysyems here, Lucid 3.0
comes with Flavors and CLX (and PCL).  Depending on how you have
set things up, you may have to load Flavors and do a USE-PACKAGE
before you can use them (or CLX or PCL).

I don't know how close this Flavors system is to the one on the
Explorer, though.

> Also, I heard that Lucid Lisp doesn't work on SunOs 4.0.3.  If
> anyone could tell me if these last two statements are true or not,
> I would appreciate it.

I just checked by running Lucid version 3.0.0 on a SPARCstation that
is running SunOS Release 4.0.3c and on a Sun 3/260 running SunOS
Release 4.0.3_EXPORT.  Both worked.  Both had Flavors and CLX.

Jeff Dalton,                      JANET: J.Dalton@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,        ARPA:  J.Dalton%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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