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>>   VMS version numbers default to the latest.  Thus if you don't specify a
>>   semi-colon, you get whatever version number is highest.  "pkg.lsp" ought
>>   to work.  Try editing compile-pcl by hand to remove the ";7" on these
>>   file names.

>Yes, but the question is where these versions numbers came from in the
>first place.  They surely don't appear in the defsys source.

I too haven't found any explicit version numbers in the defsys source.
So that doesn't work.

>In all likelyhood, the problem is that version number of his defsys.lisp
>file is 7.  Then, make-pathname-internal isn't properly stripping that
>number.  You may be able to solve this problem by changing the defvar of
>*pcl-directory* not to call load-truename but instead to just be the
>right directory.

I don't know what you mean here.

>Or, you may have to fix make-pathname-internal.  Try
>tracing make-source-pathname to see where the problem is.

I traced make-pathname-internal and make-source-pathname using the
trace function on Vax Lisp and I couldn't find anything revealing,
except that right from the beginning of the trace the version number
was 7 and didn't change anywhere. I've also found that providing the
version number explicitly in defsys even doesn't help. So that makes
me wonder, how can I change defsys so that it doesn't use any version
number at all?

If defsys doesn't *specify* a version number then it must be the Vax
Lisp doing it. On a different note, by mistake I have given a wrong
file name to load and it rightly said the file didn't exist but it was
version 0 the Vax Lisp load is looking for in this case!

Anyway, thanks for your help so far. I was out of town in the
beginning of the week, so I couldn't reply earlier.


Murthy