Re: help

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 09:51  AM, Dimitrios Konstantinou wrote:

> I am a newbie to Loom (version 4.0)
> I am using Ansi Allegro (the latest edition)
> on Windows 98
> but I get error messages, i.e. "The package MAKE
> not found"
> I have renamed the files into .lsp from .lisp
> any help?
>

Not finding the package MAKE seems to indicate that there is a rather 
serious configuration or installation problem with the files.  What it 
means is that the system has not properly loaded the defsystem.lisp 
file and therefore can't find a lisp package that was defined there.  
One possible cause of this may have to do with the line terminators in 
the lisp source files.  Since we don't have a native Windows version, 
you must have downloaded the Unix distribution, in which the lisp 
source files terminate their lines with LINEFEED instead of the DOS 
standard of RETURN LINEFEED.  That can sometimes make all of the lisp 
source files look like single long comments.

Once you have the distribution files installed, you should be able to 
build the system by loading the file "compile-loom.lsp" in the top 
level directory of the Loom distribution.

If you continue to have problems with this, please reply to me directly 
with a copy of what you see in the main listener window of your ACL 
application.  I'll see if that makes it easier to figure out the 
problem.

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