Transcribe-file handles bad input badly

I am having great fun with Corman's C parser, but I tend to make this 
mistake:

(ct:transcribe-file "in" "out" :package :option-you-idiot!)

ie, I keep thinking package is a keyword arg.

Transcribe-file begins:

> (defun transcribe-file (in-file out-file 
> 				&optional (package :common-lisp-user)
> 				          (prettyp t))
>   ;; Open IN-FILE, read all forms in it and write them prettily formatted into
>   ;; OUT-FILE.  The output file will therefore have regular Lisp FFI
>   ;; declarations in place of C declaration.  The original formatting and the
>   ;; comments are, of course, lost.  The optinal PRETTYP parameter, a
>   ;; generalized boolean, determines whether the output file forms are printed
>   ;; prettily or not (default is T).
>   (when (string-equal in-file out-file)
>     (error "Input and output file names are the same."))
>   (let ((*package* (find-package package)))...

So I guess *package* gets bound to nil if there is (one would hope!) no 
package named package. This seems to make transcribe-file go away and 
not come back.

FYI


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  kenny tilton
  clinisys, inc
  http://www.tilton-technology.com/
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