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At 5:26 pm +0100 99/5/16, Greg DuPertuis wrote:
>Ok, after many years without touching a Symbolics, I've acquired
>a 3620 with a 8.3 distribution load which I'm unable to get setup.
>Each attempt to "define site" fails with a call to string-length with
>an integer arg (not a string). I'm failing completely getting a site
>setup.
>
>Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on here????

Are you starting by booting a distribution world?  (in other words, it
sounds as if you might be running "define site" from a preconfigured world).

I recommend that you try building new boot file (in FEP FS) to boot your
distribution Genera 8.3 world, and use that as your starting point, for the
moment ignoring the previously installed site, incremental worlds, etc.

If you've been there already, perhaps listing a bit of the error backtrace
might give us a clue what the problem originates from.  (From memory I
thought that Define Site input was coerced through the presentation
substrate so that you should not be able to enter an integer where a string
was required.