Re: any lisper out there?

you can use ignore-errors

Frederic Udina wrote:

> Hi silent lispers,
>
> I have a problem and seek for a solution.
>
> Within of a lisp program,
> I want to copy a file from the current directory to a system directory.
> It could be the case (it is often) that the system directory is
> write-protected and so (rename-file old new) gives an error.
>
> How can I prevent the error? Is the function ERRSET working? Does it
> anything useful?
>
> ERRSET
> [function-doc]
> Args: (expr [pflag])
> Traps errors occurring during the evaluation of EXPR. PFLAG controls
> printing
> of the error message. Returns the value of the last expression consed with
> NIL or NIL.
>
> Any clue?
>
>  Frederic Udina
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