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


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