Greetings lisp weenies!  Welcome to the CLISP locker.  To
use the programs in this locker, you will have to do:

	athena% add clisp

Here are descriptions of the packages to be found in this locker:

clisp:
		A free Common Lisp (CLtL1) implementation.  (See
		doc/clisp.manual.text and ANNOUNCE.clisp for more
		information.)

pcl:
		Portable Common Loops.  A CLOS implementation for
		Common Lisp.  Note that CLISP now has a built-in CLOS,
		so using pcl with it is unnecessary, and slower, too.
		PCL is provided in case there are PCL-specific things
		people might want.

maxima:
		A clone of the symbolic manipulation package
		``MACSYMA'' implemented in CLISP.  The help facility in
		this package is called ``describe.''  Each statement in
		maxima must be followed by a semicolon.  Many beginners
		think that macsyma is being slow, when often it's just
		waiting for you to type the semicolon.  Example:

		(C1) describe(integrate);   <RETURN>

		To quit, type either CTRL-D or call the function:

		(C2) quit();
	       
		This package probably won't do you much good unless you
		have MACSYMA documentation handy.

clx:
		A Common Lisp interface to X.  Read the FAQ files in
		doc/FAQS for more information.

screamer:
		A portable efficient implementation of nondeterministic
		Common Lisp.  See docs in doc/screamer.

garnet: 	
		An X11 GUI system for Common Lisp.  This takes a long
		time to start up (over a minute on a sparc!) so be
		patient.	
																						patient.  Depends on CLX, but *not* in CLOS.  You
		You may just want to start clx and load garnet-loader 
		from source/garnet and get what you want instead of
		using these huge images, especially on DECstations.
		See the docs in doc/garnet for more information.

doc:
		Directory with some relevant documentation, including
		the Frequently Asked Questions lists from
		comp.lang.lisp, and the implementation notes
		for CLISP.  


Bug reports and suggestions should be sent to bug-clisp@mit.edu.

-Calvin
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Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>