From: Tayssir John Gabbour
Subject: Re: I/O in Lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <cga1uv$3e3@odah37.prod.google.com>
Johnathan Doe wrote:
> When working through Lisp tutorials, I get frustrated because I can't

> write any useful programs.  None of the tutorials show me how to do
I/O
> in the console, or with files.  After a lot of searching, all I have
> found so far is (write-string "Hello, World").  I'm stuck with
> evaluating one-liners inside emacs.

Since you're already using emacs, I suggest you install Slime. It is
quite usable and well-documented. Further, you can download the lisp
hyperspec and use it from emacs if you set:
(setf common-lisp-hyperspec-root "file:path/to/HyperSpec/")
MfG,
Tayssir