X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1912" "Thu" "13" "February" "1997" "20:11:30" "+0100" "Martin Schroeder" "ms@dream.hb.north.de" nil "39" "Re: Index generation" "^Date:" nil nil "2" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA29474; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:43:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.3C7E45B4@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:43:54 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 100846 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:43:48 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (root@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.41]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id XAA00239 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:43:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from deceased.hb.north.de by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03aixterm1) id AA20623; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:43:46 +0100 Received: from dream.hb.north.de by deceased.hb.north.de with uucp (Smail3.2) id m0vv9sI-000UmdC; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:43:30 +0100 (GMT+0100) Received: by dream.hb.north.de (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Thu, 13 Feb 97 20:11:30 CET for latex-l@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de References: <199702100640.HAA11427@puma.npc.de> <199702122238.JAA25772@flash.anu.edu.au> X-Mailer: Helldiver 1.08 (Waffle 1.65) Lines: 39 Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Organization: The Dreaming Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:11:30 +0100 From: Martin Schroeder Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Index generation Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1802 In <199702122238.JAA25772@flash.anu.edu.au> Richard Walker writes: >Well, xindy is built on top of a (not particularly portable) Lisp >system. (The files it dumps aren't even portable across machines that >are running Solaris 2 - a dump file made on a Sparc 5 is rejected by >an UltraSparc.) >To make it portable you need to change the code so that it works under >a portable Lisp. Is there a Lisp system that works (almost) >identically under Unix, DOS, Windows, Mac, etc. etc.? The answer is >yes; its name is Emacs. Better yet, there is this from the FSF: --------------- snipp --------------- * CLISP (SrcCD) CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll. It mostly supports the Lisp described by `Common LISP: The Language (2nd edition)' and the ANSI Common Lisp standard. CLISP includes an interpreter, a byte-compiler, a large subset of CLOS, a foreign language interface, and, for some machines, a screen editor. The user interface language (English, German, French) can be chosen at run time. Major packages that run in CLISP include CLX & Garnet. CLISP needs only 2 MB of memory & runs on many microcomputers (including MS-DOS systems, OS/2, Windows NT, Amiga 500-4000, and Acorn RISC PC) & Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, Sun4, SVR4, SGI, HP-UX, DEC Alpha, NeXTStep, & others). --------------- snapp --------------- Best regards Martin -- Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. (Dinah Mulock [not sure])