Re: Chipz (Was Re: *.lisp in /usr/info, redux)

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:25:00 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/14/26 8:15 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:

> On 6/14/26 6:35 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>
>> On 6/14/26 2:14 AM, Michel Talon wrote:
>>
>>> Note this also requires salza2 for compression. I have seen the 
>>> following inside:
>>>
>>>  #-(or lispworks sbcl openmcl cmu clisp ecl clasp)
>>>   (error "run-external is not supported for this lisp implementation"))
>>>
>>> so no gcl support.
>>>
>> But we don’t need compression do we? I thought we were just looking 
>> to be able to read compressed info files.
>>
>> I do wonder how important that is. I don’t really use the text help 
>> version that much. I almost always use the html version because the 
>> equations look better and I can click the cross-references.
>>
> For fun, I tried chipz with maxima. Just hacked maxima defsystem to 
> add a chipz module.

You can find the changes on the branch rtoy-chipz. I haven’t tried 
anything except to build chipz with maxima and ran the simple test 
example on a random short file I had around.
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