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We have recently run into some problems with a number of lisp applications (including
Knowledgecraft) running on Sun Common Lisp version 4.0, with the supplied windows-x
module, when we try to use a display running an X11R5 server.

As a system admin person I am not a LISP user, so I'm fumbling in the dark a bit, but I
made a guess that we needed a newer version of CLX to work against an X11R5 server...
does this sound right so far?

We grabbed the CLX R5 package, compiled and loaded it into a Lisp image and then tried to
load Knowledgecraft, which complained that the WINDOWS module was not defined.

Looking in the Sun Common Lisp 'goodies' directory there is a windows directory which looks
like the source for the 'windows' support which we are missing, but I have no idea how to
compile and load this stuff in.... so I'm baffled.

Is there some kind soul out there who can give me a set of nice explicit instructions:

Grab this
Compile this by typing .....
Load that by typing.....
Do a disksave (Yup, I actually know how to do one of those ;-)

So that I can start from a lisp-4-0-base and get a system with CLX R5, windows support,
editor-windows support and any of the other Sun type modules all working nicely with an 
X11R5 server. Then (hopefully), I can load Knowledgecraft and my users will be happy and I
won't have to take the regressive step of going back to X11R4 on my system.

Or is this all just wishful thinking?

Thanks in advance from a desperate Sys Admin!

-- 
Graham Carpenter