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- This is to announce the availability of the Univ of Maryland software
- distribution. This includes source code for the following:
-
- 1. The flavors package written in Franz Lisp. This package has
- been used successfully in a number of large systems at Maryland,
- and while it does not implement all the features of Lisp Machine
- Flavors, the features present are as close to the Lisp Machine
- version as possible within the constraints of Franz Lisp.
- (Note that Maryland flavors code *can* be compiled.)
- 2. Other Maryland Franz hacks including the INTERLISP-like top
- level, the lispbreak error handling package, the for macro and
- the new loader package.
- 3. The YAPS production system written in Franz Lisp. This is
- similar to OPS5 but more flexible in the kinds of lisp expressions
- that may appear as facts and patterns (sublists are allowed
- and flavor objects are treated atomically), the variety of
- tests that may appear in the left hand sides of rules and the
- kinds of actions may appear in the right hand sides of rules.
- In addition, YAPS allows multiple data bases which are flavor
- objects and may be sent messages such as "fact" and "goal".
- 4. The windows package in the form of a C loadable library. This
- flexible package allows convenient management of multiple
- contexts on the screen and runs on ordinary character display
- terminals as well as bit-mapped displays. Included is a Franz
- lisp interface to the window library, a window shell for
- executing shell processes in windows, and a menu package (also
- a C loadable library).
-
- You should be aware of the fact that the lisp software is based on
- Franz Opus 38.26 and that we will be switching to the newer version
- of lisp that comes with Berkeley 4.2 whenever that comes out.
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- To obtain the Univ of Maryland distribution tape:
-
- 1. Fill in the form below, make a hard copy of it and sign it.
- 2. Make out a check to University of Maryland Foundation for $100,
- mail it and the form to:
-
- Liz Allen
- Univ of Maryland
- Dept of Computer Science
- College Park MD 20742
-
- 3. If you need an invoice, send me mail, and I will get one to you.
- Don't forget to include your US Mail address.
-
- Upon receipt of the money, we will mail you a tape containing our
- software and the technical reports describing the software. We
- will also keep you informed of bug fixes via electronic mail.
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- The form to mail to us is:
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-
- In exchange for the Maryland software tape, I certify to the
- following:
-
- a. I will not use any of the Maryland software distribution in a
- commercial product without obtaining permission from Maryland
- first.
- b. I will keep the Maryland copyright notices in the source code,
- and acknowledge the source of the software in any use I make of
- it.
- c. I will not redistribute this software to anyone without permission
- from Maryland first.
- d. I will keep Maryland informed of any bug fixes.
- e. I am the appropriate person at my site who can make guarantees a-d.
-
- Your signature, name, position,
- phone number, U.S. and electronic
- mail addresses.
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- If you have any questions, etc, send mail to me:
-
- -Liz Allen, U of Maryland, College Park MD
- Usenet: ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz
- Arpanet: liz%umcp-cs@Udel-Relay
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