RE: [Gcl-devel] RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Ver sion_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, May 27, 2005 10:06 AM Camm Maguire wrote: > ... > probe-file tests whether a file exists. > > probe-file returns false if there is no file named > pathspec, and otherwise returns the truename of pathspec. > > A file here should be sopentheing that could be opened with > (open...) -- we

Re: [Gcl-devel] RE: [Axiom-developer] building Axiom with GCL Version_2_6_7pre fails

2005-05-27 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! The spec is still a little ambiguous, but these lines indicate to me that GCL, clisp, and corman have it right (don't know why clisp throws an error, but in general I use clisp all the time to test ansi compliance issues.) probe-file tests whether a file exists. probe-file returns fal

Re: [Axiom-developer] opinion

2005-05-27 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, Sorry to feed this somewhat off-topic thread, I'll refrain from doing it after this message. On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:40:32PM -0400, Page, Bill wrote: > For a baseline one can compare this to the overall increase in > the number of debian users reporting by this system > > http://people.d