running lisp with other people's inits

[Kent M. Pitman <KMP at MIT-MC>]

    Date: 18 December 1979 22:52-EST
    From: Kenneth Kahn <KEN at MIT-AI>
    To:   BUG-LISP at MIT-AI

    Why is that the following loses
    :l direct;
    ... while
    :l direct;direct lisp
    works fine?
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It is looking for the filename DIRECT;KEN LISP or DIRECT;* LISP. I know
it doesn't adhere to conventions we all learned growing up but it is in
adherence to the new hsname-init scheme and is reasonably maleable to what
you need. Just rename DIRECT;DIRECT LISP to DIRECT;* LISP and you'll win
with :L DIRECT;

-kmp