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Subject: Re: More confusion with CLX
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Date: 14 Aug 89 17:23:20 GMT
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    First off, I noticed
    that it wouldn't be happy unless I did a (in-package 'xlib :use '(lisp))

That's because the person who wrote it did so on a lispm, where the package
to use gets determined automagically from the magic ;;; comment line at the top
of the file.

    Second, I notice that I can't pass seem to pass any arguments to the
    open-display call in hello-world.

This is just a defect in the demo (most demos have defects :-).

    I'm sure that there's some way of setting this in CLX, but with no doc...

There is rudimentary doc in doc.l.  For someone who understands CL and Xlib,
the interface should be pretty easy to figure out.  There has in the past been
more complete documentation available in draft form via anonymous ftp to
csc.ti.com.

    Third, when I run it, it sits around for awhile gc'ing and then does
    nothing.

The R3 hello.l works fine, without modification, under the Allegro CL on my
machine.  I suspect there are simply problems with CLX under AKCL.