can't find package error message

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From: Kevin_Crowston
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1988 20:20

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Being a new user of Common-Lisp, I frequently type in file names
(with colons after the file server name) as atoms.  This invariably
results in an error like "Can't find package {LISP to look up symbol
}<LENS>LENS.LCOM", followed by a trip to SEDIT to edit the
command.  Once in SEDIT, however, the offending colon is prefixed 
with a % to get it past the reader, so all I have to do is close the
SEDIT window.  

Question:  is there any way to make this automatic?  Is there a flag
I can set that says:  "if you can't find the package, pretend there
was a percent in front of the colon"?  A quick glance through the
release notes didn't turn up anything promising...

Kevin Crowston
Sloan School of Management

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