Rainy day on XNS server

["MAZIERE_TAURAN_CHRISTOPHE.CBVMANRXF"@Xerox.COM]

Hi,

We have many problems to obtain the new version of PCL through the bitftp
method.
I have got 5 Parts of the Uuencoded tarfile (Part 19, 14, 7, 2, 16) but
after this I have received an Email from CINSupport:All Areas:Xerox which
said:
"Do not request files from Arpa Internet archive servers because the Xerox
CIN transatlantic lines and mail servers do not have the capacity to handle
the huge tarfiles You requested. Please find a way to obtain the files you
want directly in Europe without going through the Xerox Arpanet gateway".

Could it be possible to put the Rainy Day release on {NB:Parc:Xerox}<PCL> (
source code and DFASL) ?

Christophe Maziere-Tauran
Rank Xerox France.


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From: Greg Anglin <dganglin@watstat.waterloo.edu>
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Subject: generic fcn describe in Rainy Daay

I have successfully compiled Rainy Day PCL in Coral Allegro CL 1.2.2 (not
1.3).  Everything
seems to work just fine except for generic function describe:
 
? (defclass foo ()
    ((bar :accessor bar :initarg :bar)))
#<Standard-Class FOO 3746532>

? (defmethod describe ((f foo)) 
    (format t "~&BAR ~S" (bar f))
    (values))
> Error: DESCRIBE already names an ordinary function or a macro,
you may want to replace it with a generic function, but doing so
will require that you decide what to do with the existing function
definition.
The PCL-specific function MAKE-SPECIALIZABLE may be useful to you.
> While executing: PCL::GENERIC-CLOBBERS-FUNCTION
> Type Command-/ to continue, Command-. to abort.
1 > 

With Victoria Day PCL in ACL 1.2.2 I had no difficulty with describe.  Has
there been a
change in the specification, or is this just a problem with the antiquated
ACL I'm
using?

Thanks,

Greg Anglin     (dganglin@watstat.waterloo.edu)
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1