RE: lisp basic question

Paolo,

I do not know the answer to your first question about getting back the
function definition, but I might be able to help with the other two.

In acl, you can use the dumplisp routine to create an image of your
currently running environment or the build-lisp-image routine to create an
image file based on your source files.

Using dumplisp is pretty easy and you can find the documentation here:

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/dumplisp.htm

Using build-lisp-image is a bit more complicated because you have to pass
the environment you want to build to the image creation process. The
documentation for that process can be found here:

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/building-images.htm

Once you've created an image, you can load that image at startup in Windows
by having a shortcut with the following target:

"C:\Program Files\acl62\alisp.exe"  -I c:\somepath\new-image.dxl

In the above, the argument to -I should be the path to the image file you
created using dumplisp or build-lisp-image. 

You can also probably do the above from the command line. You can also load
the image into emacs. The process of starting up under unix is fairly
similar. The documentation for starting lisp with images you've created can
be found here:

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/startup.htm

Hope that helps.

ciao

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