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.eh 'The Franz Lisp Manual''PS2:8-%'
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.tl ''\s14The\ \s16F\s14RANZ\ \s16L\s14ISP\ \s14Manual''
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.tl ''by''
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.tl ''\fIJohn\ K.\ Foderaro\fP''
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.tl ''\fIKeith\ L.\ Sklower\fP''
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.tl ''\fIKevin\ Layer\fP''
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.tl ''June 1983''
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.tl '''A document in'
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A chorus of students
under the direction of
Richard Fateman have contributed to
building 
.Fr
from a mere melody into a full
symphony .
The major contributors to the initial system were
Mike Curry,  John Breedlove and Jeff Levinsky.
Bill Rowan added the garbage collector and array package.
Tom London worked on an early compiler and helped in 
overall system design.
Keith Sklower has contributed much to 
.Fr ,
adding the 
bignum package and rewriting most of the code to increase
its efficiency and clarity.
Kipp Hickman and Charles Koester added hunks.
Mitch Marcus added *rset, evalhook and evalframe.
Don Cohen and others at Carnegie-Mellon 
made some improvements to evalframe and 
provided various features modelled after UCI/CMU PDP-10 Lisp and
Interlisp environments (editor, debugger, top-level).
John Foderaro wrote the compiler, added a few functions,
and wrote much of this manual. Of course, other authors have
contributed specific chapters as indicated.
Kevin Layer modified the compiler to produce code for the
Motorola 68000, and helped make
.Fr
pass ``Lint''.
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This manual may be supplemented or supplanted by local
chapters representing alterations, additions and deletions.
We at U.C. Berkeley are pleased to learn of generally
useful system features, bug fixes, or useful program packages,
and we will attempt to redistribute such contributions.
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\(co 1980, 1981, 1983 by the Regents of the University of California.
(exceptions: Chapters 13, 14 (first half), 15 and 16 have separate copyrights,
as indicated. These are reproduced by permission of the copyright
holders.)
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Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted
provided that the copies are not made or
distributed for direct commercial advantage, and the copyright
notice of the Regents, University of California, is given.
All rights reserved.
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Work reported herein was supported in part by 
the U. S. Department
of Energy, Contract DE-AT03-76SF00034, Project Agreement
DE-AS03-79ER10358, and the National Science
Foundation under Grant No.  MCS 7807291
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UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.  VAX and PDP are trademarks
of Digital Equiptment Coporation.  MC68000 is a trademark of
Motorola Semiconductor Products, Inc.
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.CH 1. F\s-2RANZ\s0\ L\s-2ISP\s0 
Introduction to 
.Fr ,
details of data types,
and description of notation
.CH 2. Data\ Structure\ Access
Functions for the creation, destruction  
and  manipulation of lisp data objects.
.CH 3. Arithmetic\ Functions
Functions to perform arithmetic operations.
.CH 4. Special\ Functions
Functions for altering flow of control.
Functions for mapping other functions over lists.
.CH 5. I/O\ Functions
Functions for reading and writing from ports.
Functions for the modification of the reader's syntax.
.CH 6. System\ Functions 
Functions for storage management, debugging, and for the reading 
and setting of global Lisp status variables.
Functions for doing UNIX-specific tasks such as process control.
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.CH 7. The\ Reader
A description of the syntax codes used by the reader.
An explanation of character macros.
.CH 8. Functions,\ Fclosures,\ and\ Macros 
A description of various types of functional objects.
An example of the use of foreign functions.
.CH 9. Arrays\ and\ Vectors
A detailed description of the parts of an array and of 
Maclisp compatible arrays.
.CH 10. Exception\ Handling 
A description of the error handling sequence and of autoloading.
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.CH 11. The\ Joseph\ Lister\ Trace\ Package 
A description of a very useful debugging aid.
.CH 12. Liszt,\ the\ lisp\ compiler 
A description of the operation of the
compiler and hints for making functions compilable.
.CH 13. CMU\ Top\ Level\ and\ File\ Package
A description of a top level with a history mechanism and a 
package which helps you keep track of files of lisp functions.
.CH 14 Stepper
A description of a program which permits you to  put breakpoints
in lisp code and to single step it.  A description of the
evalhook and funcallhook mechanism.
.CH 15 Fixit
A program which permits you to examine and modify evaluation stack 
in order to fix bugs on the fly.
.CH 16 Lisp\ Editor
A structure editor for interactive modification of lisp code.
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.CH Appendix\ A -\ Function\ Index 
.CH Appendix\ B -\ List\ of\ Special\ Symbols
.CH Appendix\ C -\ Short\ Subjects
Garbage collector, Debugging, Default Top Level