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From: teskridg@nmsu.edu (Tom Eskridge)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: V in format statements - another question
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:30:07 GMT
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Thanks to all who responded to my earlier question.  The V parameter is of
course documented in CLtL I & II.

The question now is if it is a known bug in Lucid Allegro CL v3.01 that the V
option will not work on file streams.  We're have some code where
  (format t "~VThello" 8) => "        hello"
and
  (format outfile "~VThello" 8) => "    hello" where the leading spaces are the
default produced by ~T so "~Thello" would have produced the same thing.

Any explanations?

tom eskridge
computing research laboratory, new mexico state university
teskridg@nmsu.edu (505) 646-6247
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tom eskridge
computing research laboratory, new mexico state university
teskridg@nmsu.edu (505) 646-6247