Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom help needed

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Just a quick note here -- all should work below as Tim
says, but if anyone would like to use GCL's native socket support
instead/in addition and could provide a quick example of a socket
session to be so converted, I could take a look at it (at some point
in the moderately near future :-)).

Take care,

root <address@hidden> writes:

> The failure of the build is due to the fact that latex is not installed.
> 
> yes, it is possible to connect to Axiom but it requires a bit of 
> low level knowledge to do it. Axiom adds a socket package to GCL
> and you can access the Lisp code directly.
> 
> For details see src/lib/sockio.c.pamphlet line 1264
> and you can see that Axiom adds code to GCL to do things like
> redirect standard I/O
> 
> This code is used by src/interp/sockio.lisp.pamphlet (around line 93).
> So it is possible to use sockets from lisp.
> 
> It is even possible to use sockets directly from the spad algebra
> language. Function calls to lisp functions (e.g. car) can be reached by
> CAR(x)$LISP
> that is, the function name must be uppercased and $LISP appended.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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