Hello,

Le sam. 24 mai 2025, 18:41, Waldek Hebisch <de...@fricas.org> a écrit :

> On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 06:14:40PM +0200, Grégory Vanuxem wrote:
> > Hi Waldek,
> >
> > Many thanks for this quick response and fix. Just tested on official
> FriCAS
> > and the 2 problems you mentioned previously gone away.
> >
> > The .fricas.input file is still not "read" but for my mid-term work it is
> > not a big problem, my startup file is just displaying computation times
> and
> > augmenting line length of output to 110. Maybe this is related to my Kali
> > distribution on WSL2, I don't know.
> >
> > The )read command is to blame on my settings:
> >
> > (1) -> )sys pws
> >
> >    >> System error:
> >    INTERNAL-SIMPLE-ERROR: The assertion !posix_spawnp(&pid, *p1,
> > &file_actions, &attr, (void *)p1, environ) on line 65 of o/unixsys.c in
> > function vsystem failed: No such file or directory
> >
> > (1) -> )sys pwd
> > /home/greg
> > (1) -> )sys ls -l .fricas.input
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 35 Feb 11 09:42 .fricas.input
> > (1) -> )read .fricas.input
> >
> >    The file .fricas.input is needed but does not exist.
>
> AFAICS the problem is due to PATHNAME-TYPE in gcl:
>
> )lisp (PATHNAME-TYPE "/home/hebisch/.fricas.input")
>
> Value = "fricas.input"
> (1) ->
>
> All other Lisp implementations that we use return "input".


Yes and this is required by CLHS from what I have read:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/fun_pathname-_name-version.html#pathname-type

It's a good thing to know for Camm since apparently he is working on
several things and will add some suggestions for macOS from Chun Tian from
what I have understood so I think it will fix that.

- Greg

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