Macintosh Allegro Common LISP Version 1.2 Release Notes

é Macintosh® Allegro Common LISP Version 1.2 Release Notes Overview This is the first Apple release of Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp Version 1.2 (software version 1.2.2). This product was previously sold in three separate modules by Coral Software; Allegro CL Version 1.2, Foreign Function Interface, and Stand-Alone Application Generator. Any references to Coral Software are inadvertent and should be disregarded. The sections in this document follow the same order as the chapter of the Allegro CL User’s Guide. Getting Started Installation This section supersedes the section “Installing Allegro CL” on page ii of the main manual. The following procedure installs Allegro CL as well as the Foreign Function Interface and the Stand-Alone Application Generator. Allegro CL ships on two floppy disks. Neither disk includes a system file. To use Allegro CL, you will need a hard disk with a system file installed. Simply copy the files from both Allegro CL disks to a single folder on your hard disk. If you have older versions of Allegro CL on your disk, you may wish to remove (or archive) them. This will guarantee that when you double-click a document, it will open with the right version of Allegro CL. The Help File Allegro CL now includes documentation strings and argument list information for many built in functions (though not all of them). These are accessible through the Fred commands control-x control-d (documentation) and control-x control-a (argument list). The documentation strings are stored in a separate file, Allegro Help. If this file is not in the cel; logical directory, Allegro will ask you to help locate it the first time you attempt to use documentation strings or argument lists. Allegro CL 1.2 Release Notes The disassembler Because of size constraints, the disassemble feature has been moved from the main Allegro CL application into a fasl file. This file is in the library folder. It will be loaded automatically (using require) when disassemble is called. The only constraint is that it be kept ina folder directly accessible to Allegro CL. *abort-character* The variable *abort-character* has been removed from Allegro CL. This function is now only performed by command-period. The variable was removed so that control-g could be used by ed-abort-listener- input. This command, when typed in the Listener, aborts the current input and prints a new Listener prompt. The old input is not deleted, so that you can go back to it later. Allegro CL Menus There have been several changes in the arrangement of the menubar. In the Edit, the Change Font and Insert Killed String... menu-items have been removed. These are now available as example files. The Documents... menu-item has been removed (because the ccl-doc folder has also been removed). In the Eval menu, menu items have been added for step and trace. The Step... menu-item lets the user input a string, which is read and then stepped. The Trace... menu-item brings up a dialog box gi…