RE: RE: [Ilisp-help]Need Help w/Install on Win98

-------Original Message-------

From: Clementson, Bill
Date: Friday, May 03, 2002 06:21:59 PM
To: 'Jeff Stephens'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Ilisp-help] RE: [Ilisp-help]Need Help w/Install on Win98

I'm not sure why you are getting the error "Wrong type argument:  processp,
nil". A few suggestions:

1. You did download the version of ilisp from cvs, correct? If not, follow
the instructions to download the cvs version of ilisp.
2. In emacs, before you press F5, go to the Options menu & make certain that
the "Enter Debugger on Error" item is checked. Send me any detailed error
messages.
3. When you are typing the "M-x ilisp-compile-inits" command, presumably you
are doing the following:
    Hold down the Alt key and press the x key
    In the minibuffer window at the bottom, type in the command 
ilisp-compile-inits" (without the quotes) and press Enter

For activating Allegro (and other lisp implementations), the M-C-F5 key
sequence means hold down the alt key and the ctrl key and press the F5 key. 

Hope that helps.

--
Bill Clementson

I can't remember if I downloaded ilisp from CVS or just downloaded the
latest .tar.gz file from sourceforge.net.  I do know that the instructions
for downloading from cvs did not work for me on Win98.  After typing the
first line, i.e., 

E:\ cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]/net:/cvsroot/ilisp login

and being asked for a password, I type <CR> and get the following error:

CVS.EXE login: failed to open C:/HOME/.cvspass for reading: No such file or
directory
CVS.EXE [login aborted]: fatal error: exiting

But, I run both Linux and Win98 and these instructions work fine under Linux
 so I may have
downloaded using CVS under Linux and then copied the ILISP directory over to
Windows.

I just tried your instructions regarding activating the debugger upon error
before hitting F5 and
here is what the debugger produces when I type "M-x ilisp-compile-inits"
following pressing F5

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument processp nil)
  process-buffer(nil)
  comint-send(nil "(pathname-type (compile-file-pathname \
ILISP-DUMMY-STRING\"))" t nil binary nil (lambda (error wait message output
last) (if (or error ...) (progn ... ...) (setq ilisp-binary-extension ..
))))
  ilisp-binary(ilisp-binary-command ilisp-binary-extension)
  ilisp-init-internal(nil)
  ilisp-init(t)
  ilisp-compile-inits()
  call-interactively(ilisp-compile-inits)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
* call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

Are there important differences between the CVS version of ilisp and version
5.11?

Regards,
Jeff Stephens