CM with ACL4

De Clarke de@ucolick.org
Mon, 3 Feb 1997 22:41:55 -0800 (PST)


System: RH Linux kernel 2.0.18 on Pentium 133
LISP  : Franz's ACL 4 (the free Linux CD)
CM    : not sure -- how does one determine CM version?
	I snarfed it some time in early January, I think.

I'm a complete CM newbie, so am working my way through the nifty
Stella tutorial.  All goes exactly as documented until section 6,
in which the student is instructed to save the example... this is
what happens to me at this point:

Stella [Top-Level]: archive * myarchive
Archiving /home/de/myarchive.cm.
Error: attempt to call `VARIABLE-GLOBALLY-SPECIAL-P' which is an undefined
       function.
  [condition type: UNDEFINED-FUNCTION]

Restart actions (select using :continue):
 0: Try calling VARIABLE-GLOBALLY-SPECIAL-P again.
 1: Return a value instead of calling VARIABLE-GLOBALLY-SPECIAL-P.
 2: Try calling a function other than VARIABLE-GLOBALLY-SPECIAL-P.
 3: Setf the symbol-function of VARIABLE-GLOBALLY-SPECIAL-P and call it again.
 4: Return to Top-Level.
 5: Exit Top-Level.
[1] CM(2): 0

Can anyone tell me whether this is a known problem (is the publicly
distributed version of CM crippled so that it can't save files?),
a problem with ACL vs other LISPs, the known result of a common newbie
configuration error, a "documentation bug", or... could it be a CM bug?

best wishes to all

de

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