clisp Maxima patches



I'm going to upload to Maxima CVS at SourceFourge
a little patch which is aimed to resolve Maxima problems
with different clisp version.

It seems that now at least two clisp versions are
commonly used. Old one dated 06.03.2000 and
new clisp 2.27 (July 2001). Presently Maxima
works fine with old clisp but fails in several
places with new clisp 2.27. The point is that
in clisp 2.27 several functions utilized by Maxima
are moved into the new package EXT.
Now Maxima should work fine on both
versions of clisp.

Second patch is the courtesy of Raymond Toy and
it enables online info documentation browsing
under clisp. To enable this feature you have
to rebuild clisp with the REGEXP module.
Notice that even after this the REGEXP package
will be available if and only if you invoke
clisp with the option -K full
   clisp -K full
If yoy have it then rebuild Maxima with the option
  CLISP="clisp -K full"
and describe will work for you.

Best wishes,

Vadim





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[ Vadim V. Zhytnikov  <vvzhy@mail.ru>  <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru> ]