Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CMR001.BITNET!GELINASJ From: GELINASJ@CMR001.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Help needed with Lucid Common Lisp Message-ID: <900103.17381750.059594@CMR.CP6> Date: 3 Jan 90 22:35:35 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 50 A professor here is having trouble using the editor with LISP: it is not possibl e anymore to save a LISP buffer into a file as he used to do at SR9.7. Can someone point us to the error, or do we have to live with this "internal" error. Thanks. I have copied almost everything that is keyed in or appears on the screen below. Line Explanation 0 We run SR10.1/aegis+bsd4.3 on this DN4000 1-6 Call wedlisp and define a dummy fcn in the Main buffer 7 Invoke the Save File command 8 Define the name of the file as "dummy" 9 Answer another question by (yes) 10 ... and this is what results ... ---------------------------Screen top ---------------------------------------- ----- 0 % bldt **** Node 12BBC **** "//math_1" Domain/OS kernel(7), revision 10.1, November 16, 1988 11:19:45 am 1 % wedlisp ;;; Domain/CommonLISP, Development Environment Version 3.00, 10 March 1989 ;;; Copyright (C) 1986 by Apollo Computer Inc. All Rights Reserved ;;; Loading source file "user_data/common_lisp/startup.lisp" ;;; Warning: File "user_data/common_lisp/startup.lisp" does not begin with I N-PACKAGE. Loading into package "USER" 2 3 > (defun dadd (m n) (+ m n)) 4 DADD 5 > (dadd 2 3) 6 5 7 > ----------------------------------------- 8 Write file: [//.../Main.lisp] dummy 9 File does not have a newline at EOF, add one ? (YES) 10 Internal error: Illegal argument :PRESERVE to LUCID::OSI_$OPENFILE ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------Screen bottom---------------------------------------- ----- J. Gelinas, Maths, C.M.R. (gelinasj@cmr001.bitnet) J. GELINAS