Beginner needs help!

[Rick Taube]

>1. None of the manuals for clisp are in ASCII so I am kind of at a
> loss.

Im not sure what manuals you are referring to, here is a listing of  
the clisp documents that came with my version (Unix):

-rw-r--r--  1 hkt         4873 May  1 01:06 README
-rw-r--r--  1 hkt         4883 May  1 01:06 clisp.1
-rw-r--r--  1 hkt         5830 May  1 02:27 clisp.man
-rw-r--r--  1 hkt        14813 Mar 15  1994 clos-gui.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hkt        14156 Mar 15  1994 cltl2.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hkt        63603 May  1 01:08 inotes.txt

All of the .txt files are ASCII. Only the clisp.1 and clisp.man files  
need nroff to format. I've included an ascii version of thses at the  
end of this message.

>2. Is it possible to call a DOS shell from within stella/clisp? If
> so could it run csound, or would there be memory problems?

Boot clisp and then type: (apropos "SHELL"). If it shows the SHELL  
function defined then it is theoretically possible.  You will be able  
to invoke csound, but I don't have any idea about memory limitations.  
Also, my guess is that in DOS I the csound shell will have to finish  
before clisp resumes.

>3. When I type quit from stella I get placed at '>' prompt. Whatever
>I then type seems to put me in the debugger Break-1 >. How do you

To quit CLISP use the (exit) function.  Control-D also works in Unix,   
try Control-Z on DOS.
	-hkt