perm filename CNVR.NOT[C,JRA] blob
sn#033006 filedate 1973-04-03 generic text, type T, neo UTF8
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00100 THE ACTUAL CONNIVER FILES ARE CNTRL,DB,MATCH,TRYNXT
00200 TRYASSIGN IS ACTUALLY PART OF MATCH,BUT HAS BEEN SEPARATED
00300 BECAUSE THE LOSER COMPILER WON'T COMPILE IT.
00400
00500
00600 THE MAIN DIFFICULTY IN RUNNING UNDER STANFORD LISP IS THE LACK OF
00700 READ-MACROS.(WE HAVE UCI LISP (YUCKYLISP) RUNNING HERE AND WILL
00800 VERY LIKELY PUT UP A NEW VERSION OF CONNIVER IN UCI LISP IN THE
00900 NEAR FUTURE). THE PRESENT CONNIVER RUNS UNDER A VERY SHITY
01000 PATCH TO SIMULATE CONNIVER'S MACROS. IT WORKS.
01100
01200 THIS KROK IS CONTAINED IN JOLLY.MAC AND JOLLY.LSP
01300 COMPAT.LSP DEFINED DEFUN. SYSTEM.LSP IS AN ATTEMPT TO SIMULATE
01400 MACLISP..I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT, BLAME SOMEONE ELSE.
01500 LAP SHOULD BE CHANGED TO NO LONGER RECOGNIZE " AS A STRING DELIMITER
01600
01700 THE DOCUMENTATION IS GROSSLY OUT OF DATE, BUT WILL SOON BE UPDATED.
01800 THE INTERPRETER IS VERY SLOW, BUT I KNOW OF WAYS TO SPEED IT UP
01900 AND WILL DO SO IN THE NEWER VERSION.
01910 THE ORDER OF LOADING SHOULD BE:
01920 JOLLY.REL,JOLLY.LSP,COMPAT,SYSTEM,CONNIVER-FILES
01930 DO GETSYM SUBR ON GLOBALS OF JOLLY.MAC
02000 JRA