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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.lisp.franz,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Franz Lisp lives!
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Date: 10 Sep 92 16:56:53 GMT
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In article <7482@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>>        * A Franz Lisp environment which includes:
>>            - An interpreter (lisp, at least version Opus 38.22).
>>            - A compiler (liszt, at least version 8.08 [.22]).
>
>I have a compile-to-C version of Liszt that I developed a number of
>years ago and (together with some other people) I've recently made
>Franz Lisp work in 386BSD.  So, although I don't have time to do it
>myself right now, this version of Franz should be fairly easy to
>port to Sparcs and to random "Berkeley Unix" machines in general.
>If there is any interest in this, I will try to make the sources
>available fairly soon.

A number of people have written to say that they are interested, 
so I'll try to do something.  There are some tedious but necessary
changes I have to make to the sources before I can relevase them,
but once I do that I'll put them somewhere for ftp.

-- jeff