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From: miller@FS1.cam.nist.gov (Bruce R. Miller)
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Subject: Re: defsystem question
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Date: 31 May 91 18:04:27 GMT
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In article <1991May31.171429.17402@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, R. Bharat Rao writes: 
> 
> I have a question regarding defsystem (on the TI Explorer's).  If you
> have defined a system (say PLS) via defsystem, how do you make this
> a module within another system.  
> 
> The :component-systems option is not quite right as all component
> systems are compiled and loaded after the main system has been.  

I suspect this is very `post MIT' and not in TI's defsystem, but
the Symbolics has the capability of specifying module `types' (eg. Lisp,
c, font, system ..)

So you can have the module:
  (:module PLS "PLS" (:type :system))
and put it whereever it needs to be.