I am having trouble finding information about the following LISP 
actions. I have searched almost every book written on LISP and have not 
succeeded in locating the answers. I am sure LISP is capable of 
executing these operations. I thought that you might be so kind as to 
help me locate the answers or leads to finding the answers to the 
following questions. 

I am running Allegro CL 5.0 on an Winnt4.0 OS.

1.) Open an .exe, .com, etc. compiled file and read from it to another 
file; 

instead of using the (copy-file) function. Or how does the (copy-file) 
function work.

2.) Access hard drive, CMOS, etc. hardware info such as serial numbers, 
volume numbers, motherboard info, video card info, etc., from LISP.

3.) Change keyboard assignments; such as changing F8 to a command, 
changing the Print Screen button to a command, etc. (possible hot keying 
other keys as well.)

4.) Search the OS for drives. ( c: d: e: etc.)

5.) Find specific file somewhere on c: d: e: etc.

6.) How do I execute programs from LISP::such as Wordpad.exe, 
Quicken.exe, etc., and execute the open, save, etc. commands--and exit 
the program to renter LISP.

7.) What function will copy a user input to the clipboard?

Thank you for any assistance,

bud elkin 

<msn.com at budelkin>