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From: cox@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Charles A. Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Porting Franz Lisp to run under Gnu C
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Date: 8 Jun 89 03:43:46 GMT
References: <1196@cayman.cme.nbs.gov> <7487@hoptoad.uucp> <517@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <517@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>In article <7487@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>>It looks like this is turning into a bigger effort than I and Berkeley
>>can support.  Two questions:  Does anyone care if Franz Lisp moves into
>>/usr/old and is desupported in BSD releases?  And, is there anyone who
>>wants to take on the Lisp compiler conversion themselves?
>
>I guess I would like to see Franz supported, but I don't think it's
>so important now as it was in the past.

Just to make sure there's no confusion, this discussion is about the
old Opus 38 Franz Lisp available with UNIX BSD distributions.  Newer
versions of Franz Lisp (currently Opus 43) are supported and available
from Franz Inc. (ask info@franz.com for more information).

	Charley Cox
	cox@Berkeley.EDU