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Date:Mon Feb 3 17:56:45 2000 
Subject:news-relay 
From:pop 
Volume-ID:1000203.03 

I've downloaded the windows version of Poplog, but have had distinctly
limited joy with it.

(1) POP-11 seems to work tolerably. But there's quite a bit of Unix
stuff that's simply unbound. For example the ved_ls command
(<enter>ls<return>) obviously tries to spawn off a Unix shell(...!).
While dired isn't implemented.

(2) I couldn't  restore any of the .psv files to get Common Lisp, Prolog
and SML. [wrong system and version messages]

(3) I successfully built Prolog (though it's a bit of a bore to have
to compile the whole system every time you use it...)

(4) Trying to build Common Lisp consistently crashed Windows 95 (... what
an "operating system"...)

(5) I built the Poplog SML (pml) with apparent success EXCEPT that
no output appeared from my interactions, except when I made an error.

It's not that I'm complaining, since it's all a freebie. But it doesn't
give a very good impression of Poplog, to say the least.


I don't know if anybody can help me with this - I'd like to build my
Scheme in the system, but the experience isn't encouraging me to
believe it would be worth the effort.

Robin.