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- From: cartier@math.uqam.ca (Guillaume Cartier)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: init file
- Message-ID: <9208131917.AA00712@mipsmath.math.uqam.ca>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 19:17:58 GMT
- Sender: cartier@mipsmath.math.uqam.ca
- Lines: 36
- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
- Original-To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com (Macintosh Common Lisp)
-
- >GatorMail-Q init file
- >MCL question/problem:
- >
- >When I start up MCL 2.0 by double-clicking the application icon, the init.lisp
- >file does not automatically load like the documentation says it should.
- >
- >I also had this problem with MCL 2.0b1 but I thought it was just a early
- >release bug. To fix it I put a function on the *lisp-startup-functions* list to
- >load the init file and then saved the image.
- >
- >Is there something I could be doing wrong, or is this the way it is for some
- >reason?
- >
- >Keith Diefendorff
- >email: keithd@oakhill.sps.mot.com
- >Applelink: MOT.KD
- >phone: 512-891-3219
- >fax: 512-891-3818
-
- If you use SAVE-APPLICATION to save the state of a running MCL
- application, you have to be aware that it takes a keyword argument
- named :INIT-FILE which defaults to NIL (meaning don't load any
- init file).
-
- What you want is probably:
- (SAVE-APPLICATION "FooBar" :init-file "init").
-
- Signed:
- The SAVE-APPLICATION specialist! :-)
-
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