🚀 go-pugleaf

   I have 2 Xerox Lisp machines.  One is an 1109 and is connected to a
Unix fileserver.  The other is an 1108 and is not connected to any
fileserver.

   I have a couple of files on the fileserver which were produced in
Emacs, but which will load into the 1109 just fine.  (One has
Interlisp source, and is loaded via il:load, the other is a clisp
file, and is loaded via xcl:load.)

   Recently I copied these files onto floppies and tried to load them
into the 1108.  They will not load.  I get an error concerning having
hit the end of file.

   A bit of probing has strongly implied that the loaders are failing
to recognize the newlines in the file.  Our fileserver uses ^J (Ascii
10) as a newline, so that is what appears on the floppy, but at least
the clisp window (xcl:load) seems to believe that ^M (Ascii 13) is the
newline.  (I suspect that il:load makes the same assumption.)

   My conjecture is that Lisp decides what the newline character is
depending on where it is reading the file from.  So, a file on Unix
with ^J as a newline will load just fine, but the identical file on a
floppy will not load.

   Has anyone else had similar problems?  Am I correct about the
cause?  Does anyone know of a clean way to fix it?  I would prefer to
avoid putting these files into Makefile format if I can help it.


   Twinerik