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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: How can I force GCL to print in lower case?
Date: 1995/04/11
Message-ID: <3006607619.142689@naggum.no>#1/1
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[William Paul Vrotney]

|   In article <3mc3en$6mc@tools.near.net> barmar@nic.near.net (Barry Margolin) writes:
|   
|   >   In article <3005937741.475635@naggum.no> Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:
|   >   >[David Finton]
|   >
|   >   >|   Is there a system variable I can set which will force GCL to print in
|   >   >|   lower case?  For example, if I want to print out a list (1 2 3 t e) I
|   >   >|   get: (1 2 3 T E), which I don't want.
|   >
|   >   >looks like you want to bind *PRINT-CASE* to :DOWNCASE.
|   >
|   >   Since *PRINT-CASE* is a relatively recent addition to Common Lisp, GCL
|   >   might not have it.  In that case, you can use the ~(...~) controls in
|   >   FORMAT to force output to lower case.
|   >   -- 
|   
|   GCL version 1.1 has *PRINT-CASE*.

while we're at it, AKCL version 1.530, compiled on April 26, 1991, also has
*PRINT-CASE*.  that's the oldest running version of any *KCL I have around.
GCL 1.0 also had it.

this is not intended to detract from the useful advice about ~(...~).

#<Erik>
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