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Subject: common lisp X interface
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Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 23:07:32 EST
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the recent notice re a "standard Common Lisp interface to
X Version 11" described it as an alternative (in addition to) the
Xlib interface, in that it will provide the equivalent support
but will keep as much of the implementation as possible within Lisp.

This would appear to require that CL implementations in  unix environments
be provided with a very low level (C based?) protocol interface upon
which to build.
Does anyone know what vendors like DEC, HP, and Sun are planning?

I'm actually interested to use such a foreign-function  interface from
CScheme, but the CL version would be a good base.

james anderson.
department of architecture 9-526
MIT Cambridge MA 02139
617-253-0782