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Date:Mon Feb 28 16:43:41 1997 
Subject:Re: reading and writing a complex file in Poplog lisp 
From:John Williams 
Volume-ID:970228.01 

>I have a lisp data structure, which I need to read and write to a file.
>After a certain number of imbedded lists (the critical number seems to be
>13) - it does not read correctly - with a space appearing in the lisp
>object name. Has anyone any ideas - I've been playing with it all day now :->
>
>If it makes a difference - I am using Poplog 15.0 The code is below.
>Also *print-length* and *print-level* are both nil


It works ok in Poplog 15.5.

My guess is that it's a pretty printer problem, i.e. the symbol
STRUCTURE is getting broken into two by the pretty printer. Try setting
*print-pretty* to NIL.

The Lisp pretty printer has been completely re-written since 15.0.

John.