Due to the large number of requests for ELI (Embedded Lisp Interpreter) sources
and documentation, and the difficulty that some have had in 1) extracting only
ELI from the X11R3 distribution and 2) reading the ELI documents (which are in
Andrew Toolkit format), I have decided to post the sources and documentation to
the comp.soft-sys.andrew Usenet newsgroup, which is gatewayed with the Internet
mailing-list "info-andrew". (Subscribe to info-andrew by sending mail to
····················@andrew.cmu.edu.)
The distribution in these posts is a split, uuencoded, compressed tar archive.
The archive contains three "sub-archives": eli.tar, rxp.tar and doc.tar. The
first contains the sources for building ELI. The second contains the sources to
Henry Spencer's famous regular-expression package, which is used in three of
ELI's built-ins. The third contains the documentation (in both ATK [Andrew
Toolkit] and Postscript form).
The sources appear almost exactly as they do in the X11R3 distribution, and you
will probably have to tweak the Makefiles to get them to build properly. The
need for this should be minimal. There is also a small amount of
Andrew-specific stuff in the sources; it should be easy to excise this (with no
harmful side-effects).
To recreate the files in the distribution, take the following steps:
1) "cat" all thirteen parts of the distribution into a single file
("eli-dist.tar.Z.uu") in the proper order.
2) uudecode eli-dist.tar.Z.uu
3) uncompress eli-dist.tar.Z
4) tar xf eli-dist.tar
5) tar xf eli.tar
6) tar xf rxp.tar
7) tar xf doc.tar
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Bob Glickstein
ITC Database Group
Information Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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