Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!BRL.ARPA!fsbrn From: fsbrn@BRL.ARPA (Ferd Brundick, VLD/LTTB) Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Re: Comments in imported Common Lisp files Message-ID: <8711050741.aa21498@VIM.BRL.ARPA> Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 07:41:10 EST Article-I.D.: VIM.8711050741.aa21498 Posted: Thu Nov 5 07:41:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 02:36:53 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 27 Haah, There is a new LispUser's package called PORT-CLFILE. I picked up a copy when I was in Pasadena recently and it works quite well. There are 2 major functions in the module -- one imports an ASCII Common Lisp file, comments and all, and the other takes a File Manager style file and writes it as an ASCII file. I find the export function more useful because I had already loaded all my Gould CL files and put the comments back in by copy-selecting between TEdit and SEdit windows (of course, I would have imported the files if I'd had the function at the time). The ability to export FM files as "normal" ASCII files lets you use the Xerox for development work and then transfer the files to a non-Xerox production machine. There was another request recently for a graphics clock for Lyric. Last month I also picked up a copy of the Lyric version of BICLOCK. It's been jazzed up a bit and now includes features that combine the Koto BICLOCK with CROCK. I especially like the chimes every 15 minutes. I would suggest that you contact Xerox Support about the general availability of both of these modules. dsw, fferd Fred S. Brundick USABRL, APG, MD.