From: Mark Carter
Subject: Corman and FOREIGN HEAP PTR
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 13:17:52 +0000
Message-ID: <436cb0f3$0$41145$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>

I am trying to download webpages using Corman Lisp 2.51.

Their examples directory has a file called internet.lisp, which 
downloads the webpage http://www.apple.com, and sets buffer with its 
contents.


The problem is that it buffer is of type
#< FOREIGN HEAP PTR: #x32DD68, length = 1024 bytes >
How do I convert this into a string so that I can process the html contents?

• Re: Corman and FOREIGN HEAP PTR Luís Oliveira
  • Re: Corman and FOREIGN HEAP PTR Mark Carter

From: Luís Oliveira
Subject: Re: Corman and FOREIGN HEAP PTR
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:15:27 +0000
Message-ID: <m2acgj6v0g.fsf@pomajxego.local>

Mark Carter <··@privacy.net> writes:
> The problem is that it buffer is of type
> #< FOREIGN HEAP PTR: #x32DD68, length = 1024 bytes >
> How do I convert this into a string so that I can process the html
> contents?

If that's a C string, use C-TYPES:C-STRING-TO-LISP-STRING.

-- 
Luís Oliveira
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Equipa Portuguesa do Translation Project
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From: Mark Carter
Subject: Re: Corman and FOREIGN HEAP PTR
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:39:48 +0000
Message-ID: <436cc426$0$41140$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>

Luís Oliveira wrote:
> Mark Carter <··@privacy.net> writes:
> 
>>The problem is that it buffer is of type
>>#< FOREIGN HEAP PTR: #x32DD68, length = 1024 bytes >
>>How do I convert this into a string so that I can process the html
>>contents?
> 
> 
> If that's a C string, use C-TYPES:C-STRING-TO-LISP-STRING.

Bingo! Thanks for the help