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From: bart@reed.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Interfacing 4.3BSD Unix C to Franz Lisp
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Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 20:06:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  2 20:06:00 1987
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I haven't been able to find an answer to this question around here,
so excuse me if it's obvious:

	I want to write a series of functions in 4.3BSD Unix C, to
be called from Franz Lisp, which accept Franz strings and return
same.  The Franz manual is only mildly informative, as is the
system document.  The manual contains a reference to a paper
entitled "Parlez-Vous Franz?  An Informal Introduction to Interfacing
Foreign Functions to Franz Lisp" [James R. Larus, Center for Pure
and Applied Mathematics, UCB, report PAM-124] which looks just like
what I want.  Is there any easy way for me to obtain a copy of this?
Is there other info I want?

	I assume the right thing to do is to somehow allocate a
lispval in the lisp address space, and then return it from a BCD
function of discipline "function".  Am I even close?

	Any help *greatly* appreciated.  Summary of replies upon
request.  And again, my apologies if this is a stupid question...



					Bart Massey
					..tektronix!reed!bart