MACTCP from MCL --- success at last!

[lindahl@arrisun3.uta.edu (Charlie Lindahl)]

All: 

For those of you who might have been struggling with MACTCP.LISP
(available on this archive), I found a little tip: YOU MUST BE RUNNING
MCL ON THE SAME VOLUME AS THE SYSTEM FOLDER!!!

I kept on getting an error during execution (something to the effect
of a "NIL is not MACPTR" or somesuch); I finally decided to really
start digging around in the code to figure out what was going on. 

The "%load-resolver" function wasn't reading the resource file 
for MacTCP correctly (got a "resource file not found" for the resource
file "MacTCP DNR", which is dynamically loaded to do TCP name 
lookup). 

In frustration, I decided to copy MCL to my system disk and voila! It
ran OK. 

Just hoping this will save someone else the same trouble I had. I am 
now communicating via TCP with a server on my SUN; I'll try to publish
some small examples in the next few weeks (SUN and MCL code, both). 

Charlie S. Lindahl
Automation and Robotics Research Institute
University of Texas at Arlington
Internet EMAIL: lindahl@sparki.uta.edu

When the going gets tough, computer scientists press the reset
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