Thanks to all for their help!
The problem turned out to be in how I was blocking the thread waiting for
io. Fixing this got it working.
On 2/10/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> > I have been running maxima under sbcl, so I'll try GCL and see if
> > that makes a difference.
>
> I tried it with SBCL 1.0, GCL 2.6.7, and Clisp 2.38 and they all work OK.
> If anything, I would expect SBCL to work better than GCL for something
> like this since GCL has more idiosyncrasies than SBCL.
>
> Good luck, & let us know how it goes.
>
> Robert
>