On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 19:00 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > The main problem now seems to be that an attempt to use any of the > > REF, > > DOC, HELP or TEACH commands fails with the "not found" error. > > Where are you issuing the commands? They are supposed to work both > from > the pop11 colon prompt and the ved command line. Can you get xved > to > run from the shell? What does bash say to 'which xved'? If you can > get > xved to run from bash, do help, ref, etc. give the same error from > the > xved command line as when you run (non-x) ved from the pop11 prompt?
Both ved and xved run from the shell; ved runs from pop11, pml, clisp and prolog with exactly the same error message when I try "help help": $ TERM=linux prolog Sussex Poplog (Version 16.0 Sun Aug 16 18:54:52 CDT 2020) Copyright (c) 1982-1999 University of Sussex. All rights reserved. Prolog (Version 3.2) Setprolog ?- help help ;;; HELP HELP not found - try HELP HELPFILES ;;; PRINT DOING ;;; DOING : popvedcommand prolog_load pop_setpop_compiler ?- ^D ================================================================= $ TERM=linux pml Sussex Poplog (Version 16.0 Sun Aug 16 18:54:52 CDT 2020) Copyright (c) 1982-1999 University of Sussex. All rights reserved. Standard ML (Version 2.1) Setml - help help ;;; HELP HELP not found - try HELP HELPFILES ;;; PRINT DOING ;;; DOING : popvedcommand ml_top_level ml_compile pop_setpop_compiler ;;; - ^D =================================================================$ TERM=linux clisp Sussex Poplog (Version 16.0 Sun Aug 16 18:54:52 CDT 2020) Copyright (c) 1982-1999 University of Sussex. All rights reserved. Common Lisp (Version 2.0) Setlisp == @help help ;;; HELP HELP not found - try HELP HELPFILES ;;; PRINT DOING ;;; popvedcommandPOP11- VALlispEVALtop_level_evaltop_level_looplispCOMPILElisp ;;; ;;; DOING : _compilepop_setpop_compiler == ^D =================================================================$ TERM=linux pop11 Sussex Poplog (Version 16.0 Sun Aug 16 18:54:52 CDT 2020) Copyright (c) 1982-1999 University of Sussex. All rights reserved. Setpop : help help ;;; HELP HELP not found - try HELP HELPFILES ;;; PRINT DOING ;;; DOING : popvedcommand pop_setpop_compiler : ^D (The ^D just indicates where I terminated the program; it didn't actually appear on the screen). As you can see, I get the same behavior from all four language systems. Thanks for your help, Bill Wood
